Star line

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Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:24 pm

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Star line

I have a question. If you were to draw a line from the outer edge of the other side of our galaxy through the center of the galaxy and out to the spiral arm of the earth, what would be the last star on the line before you got to our sun?


Uranut  

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Fri Feb 23, 2007 7:55 pm

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The nearest easily identifiable star to that line is X Sagittarii, a cepheid variable with a range of 4.24 to 4.84 and a period of just over 7 days. It's about 1.5 degrees northeast of the galactic center as seen from our perspective.

Of course, there may be other stars closer to the line and/or Earth but none that I can locate in a casual search.


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