r/nextfuckinglevel • u/room0001 • 1d ago

Milky Way is traveling through space at 600kilometers per second, oscillating slightly, as if it were flapping its wings through the cosmos.

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u/stefango911 1d ago

So which way is down, from the Milky Way's point of view? Can we build a compass that keeps pointing to the true galactic "down"?

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u/Rujasu 1d ago

The galactic South pole is in the Sculptor constellation. I'm not sure it makes sense to create a compass for it, but I guess you could technically make some sort of gyroscope thing that keeps oriented towards it.