What is the relationship between the plane of the solar system and the plane of the Milky Way?
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The plane of the solar system, called the Ecliptic, which runs along the Zodiacal belt of constellations, is tilted about 60 degrees to the plane of the Milky Way. The two points where these two planes intersect on the sky are in the constellation Sagittarius near the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 20), and on the border between Taurus and Orion near the open cluster NGC 2129.
I like this question, but I've never heard it addressed by astronomers. What we do know is that our Solar System is located on or very near the main plane of the milky way.
Also, to get some idea of the scale going on here, if you were to shrink the milky way to 80 miles in diameter, our solar system would be around 2mm in diameter! That's 2mm to 80 miles! So maybe that's why no one has cared very much about how coplanar our solar system is with our galaxy. I couldn't find out, anyways...
The upper wiev of Milky Way is circular with 5 arms, and the lateral wiev is lenticular ...
The solar system is located in the Orion arm at the exterior
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