Quotes About Orion Arm

After nine billion years of such enrichment, in an undistinguished part of the universe (the outskirts of the Virgo Supercluster) in an undistinguished galaxy (the Milky Way) in an undistinguished region (the Orion Arm), an undistinguished star (the Sun) was born.

The Gum Nebula was one of the largest astronomical landmarks in the Orion Arm. It was a gigantic supernova remnant, a shock front from the death of a star over a million years in the past.

we currently live in a region—300 light-years across—called the Local Bubble, which is a vacuum-like domain with very low hydrogen density within the interstellar medium in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.