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
Posted on 06/03/2013 5:36:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
If you imagine the Milky Way as a rippled cookie, our star is in a neighborhood in between two big ripples (the Sagittarius Arm and the Perseus Arm). Before, we thought the Local Arm (or Orion Arm) was just a small spur between the arms. New research using trigonometric parallax measurements, however, suggests the Local Arm could be a “significant branch” of one of those two arms.
In a few words, our stellar neighborhood is a bigger and brighter one than we thought it was.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
Guess if you live long enough.....
Great. Another real estate bubble.
if there’s so much room now in our neighborhood then...to hell with my damned diet!
You might like this....Colorado Milky Way. Credit: Michael Underwood
“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.
There go the taxes.
Seems like best of both worlds to me. Sort of a quiet side street just off the main drag.
I love them too!!!!!!!!!
alas, today was yet one more damndable soup and salad day
SH*T!!!!!
“Before, we thought the Local Arm (or Orion Arm) was just a small spur between the arms.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kPocPwXzdM
ps: with all our supposed technological expertise, why can’t someone stop making silly little pocket telephones and computer games long enough to make something I really want...
like a good-tasting, good4U, zero-calorie Milkey Way bar that will pass my bonecracker’s approval process for my dam*ed diet?
who needs more computer games, anyway?
If we're on the Lo-Cal Arm then we're going to have to come up with a healthier name than "Milky Way". ;-)
Because Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas will get you well prepared mentally for what’s coming in your life after Obama finishes transforming America?
you mean, it will rot out our brains completely and replace same with quince jelly instead?
Indeed. Stand by for reassessment.
I assume you have long since stopped watching TV? Because I find it interesting that many people who slam video games sit drooling in front of a TV and have no issue with their brains being fully propagandized by the experience.
Yeah.
Too bad there’s an alien in the White House.
An illegal alien.
Had his BC forged at Area 51. (only sorta joking)
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