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Re:Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way? by hanniabu on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:12PM (#21142604)
Okay, so once you have north, which way is east in a circle?
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Re:Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way? by ajuc on Thursday October 03, 2019 @04:11AM (#21144756)
East on Earth is the direction in which we rotate. Should be the same for a galaxy.
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Re:Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way? by hanniabu on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:06AM (#21147075)
That's because earth can be viewed as a plane. The galaxy can't, you need a median.
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Re:Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way? by ajuc on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:12AM (#21147148)
1. Milky Way is much more like a plane than Earth

2. it doesn't matter anyway any object which rotates can have direction named basing on that rotation

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