Timeline for Where is the center of the Milky Way located?
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| S Oct 12, 2018 at 16:01 | history | suggested | Alphecca | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
cleaned up the language
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| Oct 12, 2018 at 15:28 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 12, 2018 at 11:35 | vote | accept | Carlos Zamora | ||
| Oct 12, 2018 at 5:53 | comment | added | uhoh |
+1 for a well explained and well-sourced first question by a new user!
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| Oct 12, 2018 at 5:52 | answer | added | uhoh | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 21:27 | comment | added | astrosnapper | Note that your catalog only contains bright and/or nearby stars and the distances are from Hipparcos and are not likely to be trustworthy beyond a few hundred parsecs. So your stars are going to be in a pretty local bubble around the Sun and the furthest star will be less than ~10 % of the way to the Galactic center. A catalog based on Gaia-DR2 parallaxes will give a better idea of the structure of the Milky Way and the location of the galactic center. | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 17:49 | answer | added | Mike G | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 11, 2018 at 5:09 | comment | added | user21 | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Center may be helpful, as might en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_coordinate_system | |
| Oct 10, 2018 at 21:45 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 10, 2018 at 21:42 | history | asked | Carlos Zamora | CC BY-SA 4.0 |