The more we look at space the weirder it gets..

Put your affairs in order Duncan. It's only a matter of time...

That reminds me of when I visited a friend in hospital whilst recovering from a triple by-pass. I mention he was only deferring the inevitable.

Actually, I thought we (sol) were at about 65deg wrt the galactic plane?? Not certain, but just look at the angle it makes across our sky at night.

Or I might be completely wrong!

Roger

When you look at the rings around a Planet you see that there are gaps and I often wondered about this.

Then one day I saw that a larger object was going around in the track and came to the conclusion that the larger object was slower and therefore made the gap that way.

Clive

Planets within the rings orbit at the same speed as dust in the same orbit, but any dust with a slightly different orbit will go ever so slightly faster or slower and over the millennia the moon will hover them up. Also various tidal effects from other moons disturb the orbits of ring material.

Some very tiny moons can't make a gap, but distort the pattern of the dust to create shapes called 'propellors' (guess what they look like...)

In one case two moons hare a gap in saturn's rings with orbits only a few km different, curiously it works out so that when the faster one catches up, they swap orbits!

Perhaps the Weirdness is in the eye of the beholder