How to draw a conclusion about the relative youth of the Sun from visual observations of the starry sky?
September 18, 2020 | Education
| It is easy to see from Earth that the middle of the Milky Way coincides with the great circle of the celestial sphere. This means that the Sun flies in the plane of the Galaxy, that is, refers to its flat component. The stars of this population of the Galaxy are relatively young stars (the age of the Sun is about 5 billion years).
