The sun’s newly classified neighborhood — the Local Arm, as shown in this picture — is more prominent than previously supposed. Credit: Robert Hurt, IPAC; Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF-an-upgrade/#ixzz2VCfbjWIS
Guess if you live long enough.....
if there’s so much room now in our neighborhood then...to hell with my damned diet!
“If you imagine the Milky Way as a rippled cookie.” Sorry. I imagine the Milky Way more as seven layer salad. Hey, you imagine what you want, and I’ll imagine what I want.
Seems like best of both worlds to me. Sort of a quiet side street just off the main drag.
“Before, we thought the Local Arm (or Orion Arm) was just a small spur between the arms.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kPocPwXzdM
Yeah.
Too bad there’s an alien in the White House.
An illegal alien.
Told Ya So! Told Ya So!
We got marble countertops? Alright! Maybe we’ll get some of those butt-washer things so we can really be uptown.
Bookmark.
“If you imagine the Milky Way as a rippled cookie, our star is in a neighborhood in between two big ripples”
stop with all this high-falutin sciency talk.