Where is Taurus in the Milkyway

[Bjarne]

Pioneer 10 was heading Taurus, but where is Taurus relative to the suns orbit direction, or relative to the center of the galaxy etc..

I want to know which direction Pioneer 10 was flying, relative to the Suns orbit motion direction.

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[pergradus]

Well the short answer is Taurus isn't anywhere. The stars that make up the constellation are all at different distances and places in the milkyway. Its only from our point of view that they appear to make up that particular shape.

That being said, if you extended a line in the direction of that part of the sky (which isn't a very well defined direction...) then you'd be heading out toward intergalactic space as you left the disk. i.e. away from the bulge.

 

[Bjarne]

Is it possible to ask like this; which astrologic sign is the direction towards the center of the Milky way, when aiming towards the sun middle of that sign at 12 a clock PM

 

[Janus]

Is it possible to ask like this; which astrologic sign is the direction towards the center of the Milky way, when aiming towards the sun middle of that sign at 12 a clock PM

Sagittarius, close to where it borders Scorpius.

 

[Philosophaie]

The Milky Way is all around us. The supermassive Black Hole at the center is located in the constellation Sagittarius. The dust cloud makes a ring around the visible sky from Sagittariius thru Cygnus, Cassiopea and Canis Major traveling around the Southern Hemisphere also then back thru to Sagittarius.