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Arrow Re: Orientation of Solar System

So, summing up in more colloquial terms, the Solar System is rotating around the Galactic Center in a counter-clockwise direction when viewed from above the North Galactic Pole. Additionaly, when viewing the Solar System from the the side of the Milky Way with North up, the Solar System Plane in its elliptical orbit of the Galactic Center is inclined to the Galactic Plane, leading with its North Pole(s), and above the Galactic Plane moving North.

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