Fitness and Wellness   Explorations an Introduction to Astronomy          Thomas T. Arny

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Chapter 15, Figure 6

Figure 15.6

Schematic version of Shapley's plot of globular clusters from which he inferred the size of the Milky  ay and the Sun's location in it. Notice that the clusters fill a roughly elliptical region and that the Sun is not at the center of their distribution.

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