The sun lives in a nice, quiet, rural township of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years from the megalopolis of stars at the center of the Milky Way.

Like horses on a merry-go-round, the sun and its neighbor stars bob gently up and down as they make lazy loops around the galactic core. It takes 220 million years for the sun (and its entourage of planets) to go once around.