How you interpret the metaphor of the Way Láctea, seen of side as if it was a taken off photo?

Question

The billions of years light, are of it. Believing this equipment the astrophysical astronomers and they had abandoned the notion of that the Solar System did not have any central position in the Universe, and in the start of this century it recognized that we live in a planet nothing bonanza, around a star nothing bonanza, the Sun, located almost in the extremity of a normal galaxy, the Way Láctea. This galaxy is part of a group of galaxies, the Local Group, located in the periphery of a great accumulation of galaxies. Exactly this accumulation, the accumulation of Virgin, is small in relation to great cumulus of galaxies that we can observe in other parts of the Universe. Our localization in the Universe is therefore insignificant

Answer 1

There's nothing revolutionary about the idea. It's been a common realization by all intelligent people for a long long time.

Answer 2

Everything is insignificant when you don't fully understand.