Recent content by WolverineLV

Thanks, Pallidin. A lot of the facts I quoted I looked up while reading. Some were things I remembered from previous research. I have a decent memory for Astronomy facts, it is my avocation, and was my chosen field of study at UC Berkeley.

Firstly, there is a Galactic Plane. It is defined as the median of the disk. (A median is a standard mathematical tool for "Scatter Plots". There is plenty of data (I know, I have over 100GB of it) to show where about 1 billion of the stars are. Secondly, we can hardly cross it in 2012...