Talk:Orion Arm

Sun

First of all İ cant learn the star cluster contains sun.İ think it isnt difficult to add something here.İ wanna learn where i am. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilke71 (talk • contribs)

Hmm, I'm not sure what you're asking, but if I'm guessing correctly, yes, the Orion Arm is the galactic arm that contains the sun. (unless you've got some way awesome Internet connection, ) Yes, you are in the Orion Arm. McKay 19:28, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

For example you can determine the cluster which has sun and add an explain that this cluster has sun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilke71 (talk • contribs)

Yeah, still unintelligible. But I think you're referring to Local Fluff which is the star cluster that contains our sun. The Local Fluff is in the orion arm. McKay 23:19, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for help.Now İ'll be widely comprehensive to explain what i mean.İt is true that we are in Local Fluff and Local Fluff is in Local Bubble.İf here has maken classification of star clusters in Orion arm, it must be possible that to find me at one of these star clusters. İ dont know which star cluster is my home.Here are the star clusters of Orion arm:

• he originally included all the Messier objects from the main page

There can be another possibility that here isn't the! home star cluster. İf it is true, i wanna learn that here isn't a! possible star cluster which is home.So in this condition we must answer a question:

İs there a star cluster in this classification which is home? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilke71 (talk • contribs)

Ilke, This article mentions "Within the Orion Arm, the solar system and Earth are located close to the inner rim in the Local Bubble," The list of objects you quoted are also in the Orion Arm, but we aren't in any of those messier objects. McKay 21:10, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for all.İ cant find a friend like you.İ wanna be closer to you and learn what you know about everything. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilke71 (talk • contribs)

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. McKay 15:10, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I have a somewhat similar question about the Messier. I understand that there are a number of Messier objects within the Orion arm, and as I understand all/most Messier objects contain many stars and other objects. My question, though, is what is the equivalent term/name for the object that contains the Earth, our Sun and all the other objects of out Solar System? FrunkSpace (talk) 08:42, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

İ think there isnt an object that you are talking about(İ think you are trying to understand what i am talking about.İ think in this condition our my all talkings with you, hasnt enough meanings, because i have controlled and have looked all of them.İm sorry for this.You are true for asking this object.).At last i have learned that the orion arm has 26 messier objects and also includes local bubble( includes us); and there isnt any relationship between messier objects and local bubble. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ilke71 (talk • contribs) 12:01, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

I have recently heard on a show "The Universe" (I believe it was called) that the sun has been in all the arms of the galaxy at some point. So if u think the arm we're in is home, we maybe moving thru out the galaxy. So this home we may be moving from. If I on the same page, lol Oh and that was funny about his internet connection! lmol —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.146.254.14 (talk) 04:33, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Orion Arm structure

I propose a rearrangement of the Orion Arm article because the way it is structured leads to misunderstandings. Like someone said earlier, they were looking for the exact location of our solar system in the Milky Way Galaxy and that led to the idea of the solar system's position inside one of the listed Messier objects, which is wrong. There should be a statement, somewhere at the beginning of the article that the solar system is located inside the local bubble. Basically the Orion Arm consists of several of these bubbles and they are surrounded by molecular clouds. Known bubbles inside the Orion Arm: the local bubble, Loop I bubble, superbubble gsh 238 00 09, Loop III bubble also the Loop II and IV bubbles(although I couldn't find their exact locations). Molecular Clouds neighbouring the local bubble: Taurus, Chameleon, Southern Coalsack, Corona Australis, G192-67, Draco, MBM11-12-13, etc. I have a bigger list, will update soon. Raydekk (talk) 15:12, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

How far to intergalactic space?

How far is our Sun from the edges of the Galaxy? I don't just mean the outermost edge at the rim, I also mean "south" and "north" toward the "flanks" of the galaxy? I'm asking not entirely for information purposes, but just how far one of Star Trek's starships would have to travel directly from Earth to get to the edge of the galaxy (and encounter that mysterious energy barrier that the genre has included as a natural hazard). GBC (talk) 00:18, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Name

What is the source for this: The Orion Arm is named for its proximity to the stars in the Orion constellation? AFAIK, this makes no sense, since most stars that we see in the Sky are located in the Orion Arm. Albmont (talk) 22:26, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

The Orion Arm as a Minor Arm?

The Orion Arm is currently known as an Arm of the Milky Way in its own right. It possesses many of its own star-forming regions, fluffs and clusters and it also has its own gravitational dominance in itself; albiet not as prominent as the Sagittarius Arm or the "star-graveyard-like" Perseus arm. The Orion Arm actually wraps itself around the Milky Way's Galactic Core and is not just a few-thousand-light-years-long spur, such as the 3-Kiloparces Arm or the Scutum-Crux Arm.

Perhaps it would be best to recreate its contents. Sources include DK Encyclopedias, Britannica and the Hubble Telescope information. 121.96.158.240 (talk) 05:35, 8 April 2010 (UTC)

Sources for objects in Orion Spur map?

Where did the artists get the data for the positions of the objects marked on the "shape of the Orion Spur" image? They aren't in the original, unmodified image. (It has no labels at all.)

Many of the positions that I've found don't even come close to those indicated. None of the marked objects are mentioned in the paper cited in the picture's label. Seldenball (talk) 04:59, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Article name - shouldn't its full name be used?

Within the article itself it says "It is also referred to by its full name, the Orion–Cygnus Arm". Shouldn't the name of the article be its full name rather than one of alias names? I know a lot of articles go by commonly referred to names but thought I would raise the question anyway. Darrenaustralia (talk) 06:33, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

Asked and answered. BilCat (talk) 07:08, 19 May 2022 (UTC)