Fig. 1
Sketch of the Milky Way’s spiral structure. The spiral arms are indicated in separate colors. Our Solar System is placed in the Orion spur about 8.2 kpc away from the Galactic center. Together with the Milky Way’s center, the Sun defines the Galactic coordinate system where angles are counted counterclockwise along the longitude.
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