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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Who is smoking crack about us being at 'The Center of the Milky Way' in 2012? If you've ever taken astronomy, you would know you are probably 100+ million light years from that center. You are so far from it...
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It's not us that's at the centre. Apparently the sun will be passing the 'galactic equator' and we will be in some weird alignment.
This kind of explains it. Lot's of sites out there with little information. Understandable due to the crazy person nature of it.
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Winter Solstice Animation 1992 - 2020. How to understand the Star Map: The line which goes top left to bottom right is the Galactic Equator. The Sun starts slightly to the left of the Equator at the time of Winter Solstice in 1992 and at Winter Solstice 1997 reaches alignment. By 2012 it's 15 years past alignment, and the disc of the Sun moves completely off the Galactic Equator by 2020. [The horizontal line is the Ecliptic and the other features are nebula which lie in this area of the Milky Way].
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The first I read about this was on a Nasa site and it mentioned the possibility of a poles shift due to the sun passing the galactic equator.