how does the observed milky way form the plane of our own galaxy?

[spaceman1234]

how does the observed milky way form the plane of our own galaxy?

Hi i need to research this point, i'm not asking anyone to answer it for me but could someone explain the question to me because i dont really understand what i have to do.

any help would be appreciated.

[AstroTiger]

We are on the outskirts of our galaxy.

Prob not much help, but we are :-)

[timetraveller]

hi spaceman our galaxy is a spiral galaxy of which the milky way is one of the spiral arms our sun and its solar system are on the outside edge of this arm which rotates around the galactic centre so the plane is an imaginary line drawn from a spiral arm on the opposite side which runs through the galactic centre and then through the spiral arm in which we are situated so when you look at the milky way you are looking edge on through that line towards the galactic centre

[barkis]

The Galactic centre lies in the direction of Saggitarius, although the centre is obscured at optical wavelengths, by considerable amounts of dark nebulosity.

Saggitarius A is the brightest of a complex of radio sources at the Galactic Centre.

Ron.

Info. Courtesy Collins Astronomy Dictionary.