The Great Alignment
There's something wrong with the night sky. Something very, very wrong. Most people say that our solar system is part of the Milky Way galaxy and while it's true that the Milky Way galaxy is the largest galaxy near us and that we are sort of orbiting it, we are not actually part of the Milky Way Galaxy… yet. About 10 years ago they were doing surveys of the sky using infrared and various other spectrums and were able to assemble stars that were considered red giants, and plot them out, and a string of red giants appeared orbiting perpendicular to the equatorial plane of the Milky Way galaxy. And it showed that we were in this group of stars characterized by the perpendicular orbit and the red giants, and they were being drawn in from another galaxy outside of the Milky Way. Our home galaxy is known as the Dwarf Sagittarius Elliptical galaxy, elliptical because it forms a big ellipse orbiting the Milky Way ga...