The Sun is located in the Milky Way galaxy in a spiral arm called the Orion Spur that extends outward from the Sagittarius arm.

Jan 31, 2019 · The diminutive galaxy, named by its discoverers as Bedin 1, measures only around 3,000 light-years at its greatest extent — a fraction of the size of the Milky Way. Not only is it …

Even after the Sun has burned itself out, billions of years from now, vast numbers of our ejected comets will still be wandering our Milky Way Galaxy. Even when all of the stars of the Milky …

Oct 14, 2009 · The results from Cassini complement and extend findings from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft. Data from IBEX and Cassini have made it possible for …

Oct 31, 2010 · And the answer, published online today in the Astronomical Journal, is this: The rings are behaving like a miniature version of our own Milky Way galaxy. This new insight, …

that the center of a galaxy’s mass was located where the greatest amount of luminous matter (bright matter—the matter we can see) was found. Our sun, carrying the planets with it, orbits …

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As the Earth journeys around the sun, the location of the sun-Earth libration points stays constant with respect to those two solar system objects, but moves from the perspective of a fictional …

Oct 26, 2015 · The spacecraft is now on its way to the final orbit of the mission, called the low-altitude mapping orbit. Dawn will spend more than seven weeks descending to this vantage …

Rhea Flyby - Jan. 11, 2011: Image Gallery Raw Images -- Rhea Flyby, Jan. 11, 2011: Shadowy Rhea Craters This raw image obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's moon Rhea …