How was Shapley able to show that our solar system is not at the center of the milky way?
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Shapley found that of the roughly 100 globular clusters then known, 98% were crammed into just half the sky. If they were distributed more or less randomly around the center of our galaxy, that would have to mean we were a long distance from the center to produce such an effect.
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