ecliptic
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Observing from outside the ecliptic would provide a crucial top-down view, helping scientists trace how CMEs and other disturbances travel through the solar system.
From Science Daily
All the planets orbit roughly along the same plane, known as an ecliptic plane, or arc across the sky if you are viewing it edge-on, according to NASA.
From Los Angeles Times
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
