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ajuc on Oct 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Where Is the Sun Located in the Milky Way?

East on Earth is the direction in which we rotate. Should be the same for a galaxy.

hanniabu on Oct 3, 2019 [–]

That's because earth can be viewed as a plane. The galaxy can't, you need a median.

ajuc on Oct 3, 2019 | [–]

1. Milky Way is much more like a plane than Earth

2. it doesn't matter anyway any object which rotates can have direction named basing on that rotation

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