Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
– Some, like our sun, are pretty consistent, keeping a distance of around 30,000 light years from the galactic center, completing an orbit every 230 million years.
Many astronomers assume that the distance between our Sun and the galactic center is roughly 8 kiloparsec. This equals 8,000 parsec, which is about 26,080 light years. But measurements range from 7 kiloparsec to almost 9 kiloparsec. So due to experimental uncertainty, assuming distances between 25,000 and 30,000 light years is reasonable.
Quote: “The Sun does not lie near the center of our Galaxy. It lies about 8 kpc from the center on what is known as the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.”
Quote: “Stellar engines are a class of hypothetical megastructures which use a star's radiation to create usable energy. Some variants use this energy to produce thrust, and thus accelerate a star, and anything orbiting it, in a given direction.”
Quote: “Thus, stellar engines of the kind envisaged here may be used to control to a certain extent, the Sun movement in the Galaxy.”
