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I heard something along those lines in a youtube documentary recently and wanted to see if that was common knowledge on the matter, thanks, please elaborate.
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The constellation Orion is in the Orion arm of the galaxy,. We are in the same arm, but closer to the center. The next arm outward is the Perseus arm. The next arm inward is the Sagittarius arm. The center of the galaxy can be seen (although most of it is obscured by dust lanes) beyond the constellation Sagittarius, which is clearly visible in the summer evening sky when looking southward (from a location in the northern hemisphere). We are much closer to the stars in Orion than we are to the galactic nucleus.
your question makes no sense.
Orion is a constellation and a spiral arm of the Milky Way. We are in that arm, so our distance is zero.
A constellation is a grouping of stars as seen from Earth... they have no relationship to each other other than that. They are at a wide variety of distances, Rigel and Betelgeuse, for example, the two brightest stars are 500-700 LY and 400 LY... the belt stars are 900, 800, and 1300 LY away...
its also about 1300 LY to the Orion Nebula.
the distance to the center of the Milky Way is about 26,000 LY.
Orion is a constellation and a spiral arm of the Milky Way. We are in that arm, so our distance is zero.
A constellation is a grouping of stars as seen from Earth... they have no relationship to each other other than that. They are at a wide variety of distances, Rigel and Betelgeuse, for example, the two brightest stars are 500-700 LY and 400 LY... the belt stars are 900, 800, and 1300 LY away...
its also about 1300 LY to the Orion Nebula.
the distance to the center of the Milky Way is about 26,000 LY.
your question makes no sense.
Orion is a constellation and a spiral arm of the Milky Way. We are in that arm, so our distance is zero.
A constellation is a grouping of stars as seen from Earth... they have no relationship to each other other than that. They are at a wide variety of distances, Rigel and Betelgeuse, for example, the two brightest stars are 500-700 LY and 400 LY... the belt stars are 900, 800, and 1300 LY away...
its also about 1300 LY to the Orion Nebula.
the distance to the center of the Milky Way is about 26,000 LY.
Orion is a constellation and a spiral arm of the Milky Way. We are in that arm, so our distance is zero.
A constellation is a grouping of stars as seen from Earth... they have no relationship to each other other than that. They are at a wide variety of distances, Rigel and Betelgeuse, for example, the two brightest stars are 500-700 LY and 400 LY... the belt stars are 900, 800, and 1300 LY away...
its also about 1300 LY to the Orion Nebula.
the distance to the center of the Milky Way is about 26,000 LY.