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From LiveScience.com:
Our solar system is hurtling through space while angled nearly perpendicular to the plane of the Milky Way, new computer models suggest.
"It's almost like we're sailing through the galaxy sideways," said study team leader Merav Opher, an astrophysicist at George Mason University in Virginia.
The findings, detailed in the May 11 issue of the journal Science, suggest the magnetic field in the galactic environment surrounding our solar system is pitched at a sharp angle and not oriented parallel to the plane of the Milky Way as previously thought.
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