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Orientation of the Earth, Sun and Solar System in the Milky Way
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[QUOTE="Drakkith, post: 5950571, member: 272035"] Unfortunately the location of the exact center of the Milky Way is not known due to a number of issues. From [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center#Distance_to_the_Galactic_Center']wiki[/URL]: [I]An accurate determination of the distance to the Galactic Center as established from variable stars (e.g. RR Lyrae variables) or standard candles (e.g. red-clump stars) is hindered by countless effects, which include: an ambiguous reddening law; a bias for smaller values of the distance to the Galactic Center because of a preferential sampling of stars toward the near side of the Galactic bulge owing to interstellar extinction; and an uncertainty in characterizing how a mean distance to a group of variable stars found in the direction of the Galactic bulge relates to the distance to the Galactic Center.[/I] The supermassive black hole is almost certainly not at the center though, but probably lies a few thousand light-years off from the center. It's a bit like how the Sun isn't always the center of the solar system (as defined as the barycenter, or center of mass). [/QUOTE]
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