system
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human
The solar system completes an orbit of our galaxy every 240 million years. How do we know we won't pass through a region of our galaxy with hazardous conditions and how could we possibly look ahead to forecast something like that?

Obviously the Milky Way is massive, can we look ahead and extrapolate the orbit of our solar system to see if we are going to pass through a region of space that is unfriendly to life as we know it? Also, does this orbit bring us closer to anything of interest in the galaxy that allows us to get a better view of and or study?
gpt
The Milky Way is a disk galaxy. All the disk is rotating together and our sun is mostly just following along in that rotation. That means that as we rotate around the Galaxy the environment around us is also rotating along with us. So it will look more or less the same in 100 million years.