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Today's sun points to Milky Way center.
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Of course, it's an annual event, one that I have never been cognizant of:
![[Image: Galactic-center_the-sun-e1671715355251.jpg]](https://earthsky.org/upl/2022/12/Galactic-center_the-sun-e1671715355251.jpg) Sun activity: Today’s sun points to Milky Way center P.S. It's cloudy here with a blizzard. 
MY GOD, WHAT INCREDIBLY USEFUL INFORMATION!!!
Boru
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 (December 22, 2022 at 11:45 am)Jehanne Wrote: Of course, it's an annual event, one that I have never been cognizant of: I'm curious... how can a spherical sun point anywhere? (or am I just missing something obvious..... again?)
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The sun has an north/south axis. One of the poles points somewhere all the time.
the sun is actually about 10 degrees from Sagittarius A, which is about 20 times the visual diameter of the moon, so i would not say it is pointing to the center of galaxy. more like waving vaguely in the general direction of the center of galaxy.
(December 22, 2022 at 1:42 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The sun has an north/south axis. One of the poles points somewhere all the time. If you look at the Sun (not directly, but close to it), you are looking in the direction of the center of our Galaxy. The Sun is in Sagittarius. Now, if aliens do invade our World to conquer it, their conquest will likely be in December as they will come from the center of the Galaxy (that's where most of the stars are) and will use the Sun to hide their approach, until it is too late for us to do anything about it.
Shhh, you're blowing our sagittariun cover....
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RE: Today's sun points to Milky Way center.
December 22, 2022 at 2:35 pm
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2022 at 2:59 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(December 22, 2022 at 2:18 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(December 22, 2022 at 1:42 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The sun has an north/south axis. One of the poles points somewhere all the time. any alien that can come here from the inner reaches of the galaxy don’t need to hide behind anything, they came come with their dong hanging out in our full view all the way and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. Unlike what is insinuated by reams of ridiculous military sci-fi novels in which space marines somehow even the odds, if any alien has the ability to come here, then our doom is appointed the moment they formulate the intention to eradicate us.
I continue to be overwhelmed by the utility of knowing where the sun is or is not pointing. I may need to lie down for a while.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
well, if you want to know where the nearest supermassive black hole to earth is, then knowing where the center of the galaxy is helps a lot.
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