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Loading contentThe Sun's local patch of the Galaxy — the stars, gas, and structure within a few hundred light-years. It includes the Local Bubble, a cavity of hot, thin gas blown by ancient supernovae, and it is the vantage point from which we map the entire Milky Way, orbiting the Galactic Centre once every roughly 230 million years.
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