Although I know you can't see it, if you look up at night is there a direction you can look that would be where the center of our galaxy is; such as next to the north star or in the lower section of orion or to the right of the crab nebu

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• Sorry, but, I know we are in a spiral galaxy, we are not at the end of an arm. We are in the Orion Arm. Both the Pegasus Arm and the Outer Arm are much further from the center than us. Furthermore, yes, everything is in motion, but, since the motion of the stars and arms are so pathetically slow compared to our position in the galaxy a direction amongst the stars should be obtainable.

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  by Schroeder on October 23rd, 2008

• WE ARE near the end of an Arm, sorry. you are wrong. Regardless of where or how short our arm is; it woulsd take light years for us to even reach another arm, how silly.
  To say that other galaxies or stars are movimng slowly compared to us is absurd.

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  by buddybuddy on October 26th, 2008

• James and Buddy relax. First of all, we are NOT at the end of an arm. We may be further down our arm than toward the center, but that's like saying that I almost live in San Diego from the Grand Canyon whilst living in Phoenix.
  
  From what I read, no one said anything about other galaxies moving slowly. But from our perspective, they move agonizingly slow. As in eons to even notice a difference (since it takes about 110 million years to go halfway around).
  
  Finally, Schroeder, if you still haven't figured it out, try looking at the Milky Way when it's really bright. You can see a slightly brighter area at about the top of the sky. Since it goes from one side of the sky to the other, the middle (and brighter) area seems like a good direction toward the center, though it will change throughout the night since we spin)

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  by A shout without knowledge is a protest on December 25th, 2011