Recent content by Jennifer Wood

Thank you, ideasrule, for the confirmation and the scatterplot. Is it safe to say then that reports about the solar system being several dozen light years north of the galactic "plane" (or having just been passing through it from 98 to 2016)...are basically gibberish? Or are we missing...

Quoting mgb:The ridiculous thing about 'crossing the galactic plane' is how you even define the plane. With 3 trillion stars, uncountable number of planets, lots of dust clouds and possibly a black hole in the middle, all of which are constantly moving in different directions, how do you say...