[superfish]

> But where is it vertically in the cake? Right in the center of that frosting layer, or off by a bit up or down?

Did the author answer these questions? How far above the center of the cake is 55 light years?

[nobrains]

He mentions that the height is 2,000 light years, so the deviation from the center is 55 ÷ 1000 = 5.5% (+- 0.16%)

[mirimir]

I had no clue that the Sun's orbit looked like that. Bobbing up and down relative to the galactic plane. More or less in a sine wave.