BrooklynVariety t1_j4n0tdd wrote
Reply to comment by Puppy-Zwolle in How do we know that we are in a certain place inside our galaxy? and how do we know how big it is just by looking at the cross section we are in? by friday_panda
Not really, the whole “things moving faster further away from us” only applies to the things furthest away from us, not at all our neck of the woods. The physics that governs that phenomenon is irrelevant within the local group and certainly within our galaxy, so it doesn’t really tell us anything about how we map our own galaxy.
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