Originally posted by Illahee
The planets orbit the Sun, and our solar system is also moving around the milky way? Doesn't that mean our whole solar system is traveling through space we haven't been through before?

Imagine the shock of growing up in a loving family with people you call "Mum" and "Dad" and then, suddenly, learning that you are actually adopted!

This same sense of shock came as scientists announced that the Sun, the Moon, our planet and its siblings, were not born into the familiar band of stars known as the Milky Way galaxy, but we actually belong to a strange formation with the unfamiliar name of the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy!

The fact that the Milky Way is seen in the sky at an angle has always puzzled astronomers. If we originated from the Milky Way, we ought to be oriented to the galaxy's ecliptic, with the planets aligned around our Sun in much the same angle as our Sun aligns with the Milky Way. Instead, as first suggested by researcher Matthew Perkins Erwin, the odd angle suggests that our Sun is influenced by some other system. Together with data from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey we now know what it is. We actually belong to the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy.

Originally posted by Telafree
Try this link...
www.kgw.com...
Tela

Originally posted by StoneGarden
reply to post by Telafree

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Follow the below link to find several related videos!!!!!
6 Different vids of the same event?

www.kndo.com...

Yeah, this is cool! I have never actually seen one before... the first vid on this link in the best one...
(Videos on center of page called - video now!!!!)