We’re twenty-thousand light years from galactic central point…
We go 'round every two hundred million years!
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… in the Northern Hemisphere we’re supposed to be able to see the Andromeda Galaxy
but it’s very dim
Any galaxy is almost entirely empty space 
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NASA’s JPL mission control center in Pasadena has an official marker designating the exact center of the universe.
A little display of ego on the part of the mission control managers that get to stand on it? Certainly. But as far as all the space probes are concerned, it ultimately is where they need to send all their data so it might as well be their central reference point.
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Came to ensure it would appear - left satisfied.
(I’m probably having this played at my funeral, if I have any say over it.)
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Downloaded the app, and re the image you posted - the app says ‘device should be flat’ when phone lifted to be more than 45 degrees from horizontal, and arrow goes grey. Not sure why the image has a green arrow there and doesn’t have the message showing on that screen.
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My favorite bit of random trivia about this song is that it is so accurate that the Smithsonian Air and Space museum uses it in an exhibit.
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That sounds disappointing.
No. It’s fine, honestly.
Matt - who made the app - said the image on his blog pre-dated the final version as he was ultimately unable to resolve all the 3D calculations needed.
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So the cat isn’t the center of the galaxy?
Oh, right, it just thinks it is.
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And that it is so accurate because Eric Idle revised it a couple of times over the years.
Now that’s being serious about comedy.
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Hawking is my favorite hard core rapper!
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