The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...
Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space ...
An artist’s impression of our Milky Way Galaxy, showing the location of the Sun. Our Solar System is about 27,000 light years from the centre of the galaxy. The nearest technological species could be ...
The star-forming region called Sagittarius B2 contains half of the galactic center's stars, yet only 10% of the gas.