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"For the first time, astronomers have pinpointed the spot where the intense winds of two massive stars in a binary system violently collide and detected the production of high-energy X-rays there."

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080303-mm-stellar-wind-collision.html



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This isn't exactly on topic, but....

I ran across this article about our solar system.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=voyagers-to-the-end
"...the solar system is "squashed" on one side—specifically, that the solar wind does not go as far to the south as it does to the north before being blunted and changing direction."

As a kid I recall figuring our solar system traveled through the Milky Way oriented along the South Pole of the Sun, perpendicular to the plane of our solar system.

If true, wouldn't that explain the "squashed" aspect?
(or maybe if we were [S-facing] perpendicular to the galactic center, "rolling" around our galactic orbit.)

Does anyone know how our solar system is oriented relative to the center of the galaxy and our direction of travel around the galaxy?
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