Friday, June 14, 2013

Back to the question: Where are we in the Universe?

2.3 Percent of the Universe Map
About 2.3 Percent of the Universe
Two posts ago, I went on a rant about the difference between the progression of the zodiac and the Sun's orbit around the center of the Milky Way, which is different by a factor of 10,000 (give or take). Yesterday, I learned that our movement in the Universe is even more complicated than that. Apparently,  the Milky Way, itself, is moving away from the center of something called the "Local Void" and toward something called the "Great Attractor" in the Centaurus Cluster of Galaxies. Here's a great website with a video better (and correctly) explaining it.

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