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How might knowing Earth's position relative to the center of the milky way help you to make a map of the milky way?

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That observation indicates that our Milky Way Galaxy is a flattened disk of stars, with us located somewhere near the plane of the disk. ... "The position of the sun in the Milky Way can be further pinned down by measuring the distance to all the stars we can see.Explanation:

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