Yesterday, 02:07 PM
Quote:As soon as I learned about SWAN, I was curious whether it might have originated from 3I/ATLAS, either as a fragment that broke off from a natural icy rock or as a scout released by a technological mothership at a large distance. However, my brilliant collaborator Peter Veres confirmed that the arrival directions of the two objects are very different: SWAN originated on this encounter from the direction of the Aquarius constellation on the sky whereas 3I/ATLAS arrived from the Sagittarius constellation in the direction of the center of the Milky-Way galaxy.
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/the-new-come...3183ba41d0
Sagittarius is our parent galaxy, it was cannibalized by the Milky Way...
"Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy Consumed By Milky Way, Causing Dark Matter Hurricane"
https://www.sectual.com/thread-9863.html
Sorry for the heinous robot narration, but it's still a good explanation. Hard to find info about this topic, which isn't surprising.
Billy's take on it is interesting, but I don't agree with him. This may be one of the only things he says that is straight bullshit.
We're in a faint ribbon of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy near the outer edge of one of the Milky Way's "arms" and that's why we see it at an angle.
