ecliptic
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Conjunctions occur frequently in our solar system because "the planets orbit around the Sun in approximately the same plane - the ecliptic plane - and thus trace similar paths across our sky", according to Nasa.
From BBC
Because we’re in that plane, we see it edge on as a line across the sky called the ecliptic.
From Scientific American
That trajectory eventually took Voyager 1 “north” and out of the ecliptic—the plane of the solar system.
From Scientific American
Babylonian astronomers had previously measured the positions of some stars around the zodiac, the constellations that lie along the ecliptic—the Sun’s annual path against the fixed stars, as seen from Earth.
From Scientific American
Space physicists later worked out that models had largely ignored interstellar magnetic fields, which compress the heliosphere below the ecliptic, Provornikova says.
From Science Magazine
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