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Is Orion in the galaxy milky way?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

The Orion is a spur of the Perseus arm of the Milky Way. Our sun is in this arm.

All the stars and constellations we can see with the unaided eye are also in the

Milky Way Galaxy, as is the Orion Nebula (a vast cloud of interstellar gas).

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