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Thought this was interesting “ you are here”!
Gee if I had known there was so much to see I would have started decades ago ! :Astronomer1:

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Cheers Frank.

Love watching stuff like that!

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Hi Frank. This was a fascinating video showing our location in the Milky Way. It is like a very highly technical "you are here map" we see in a large shopping mall or at a rest stop along an Interstate Highway, only this took a long time to develop. Well, it is good to know that we are in the Orion Spur of the Milky Way Galaxy. Thanks for finding and sharing this great video link on here today Frank and keep up your great work on finding astronomy links for us to enjoy.
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Thanks for the video link. A nice history lesson.
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Graeme1858 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 4:37 pm Cheers Frank.

Love watching stuff like that!

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I could not agree more there’s so much to learn !
Gee if I had known there was so much to see I would have started decades ago ! :Astronomer1:

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Makuser wrote: ↑Sun Jul 23, 2023 4:50 pm Hi Frank. This was a fascinating video showing our location in the Milky Way. It is like a very highly technical "you are here map" we see in a large shopping mall or at a rest stop along an Interstate Highway, only this took a long time to develop. Well, it is good to know that we are in the Orion Spur of the Milky Way Galaxy. Thanks for finding and sharing this great video link on here today Frank and keep up your great work on finding astronomy links for us to enjoy.
Hi my friend hope all is well with you ?
That a great way to put like a “ you are here” like at a mall !
What I learnt that I didn’t know about was the “ halo of clusters” above our Milky Way !
Gee if I had known there was so much to see I would have started decades ago ! :Astronomer1:

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thx very informative .
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Thanks for the video Frank!
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Now that tracking the outer arms is occurring, the Milky Way's disc has been extended to ~150,000 light years.
That means the Sun is only about 1/3 of the way (~27kly) from the center to the edge of the disc.
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