Re: Is there any knowledge of when our Sun escaped the nearby spiral arm?

"Igor" <thoovler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1166394430.631141.46210@
79g2000cws.googlegroups.com:


gb6724@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Our Sun is traveling in Solo, away from the probably more
active zone of millions of stars in a neaby spiral arm of our
galaxy. Are there estimates, is there knowledge about the
course of our Sun and when our Sun might have moved out
on its own?

Why would you even think that it ever actually did?



The spiral arms are pressure waves which don't orbit in the same way as
stars.

Klazmon.
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