To: Dominic Harr
The Sun, being a member star in the family that is the Milky Way, is orbiting around the center of said galaxy. Evidence suggests that a supermassive black hole sits at the center of our starry home.
The Milky Way itself is a member of the Local Group of galaxies which includes some thirty galaxies and whose gravitational center is located between our galaxy and Andromeda. The Local Group is a member of the Virgo Supercluster, which spans roughly 200 million light years, contains about 100 groups and clusters of galaxies and well over 200 trillion stars.
The entire Virgo Supercluster is being pulled towards a gravitational anomaly known as the "Great Attractor".
265 posted on
03/15/2007 12:15:12 PM PDT by
49th
(This space for rent.)
To: 49th
The entire Virgo Supercluster is being pulled towards a gravitational anomaly known as the "Great Attractor". Fascinating, thanks for the details!
And can I assume that this "Great Attractor" is Catherine Zeta-Jones?
:-)
268 posted on
03/15/2007 12:29:56 PM PDT by
Dominic Harr
(Conservative: The "ant", to a liberal's "grasshopper".)
To: 49th
The entire Virgo Supercluster is being pulled towards a gravitational anomaly known as the "Great Attractor". Cue music...
269 posted on
03/15/2007 12:36:36 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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