What if the photo itself is actually upside down?
Also, the term down is typically to explain the difference from higher up to lower - in reference to the ground beneath our feet. You go down hill. You fall down. All in reference to the planet upon which we stand. So if this photo was taken from the earth then “down” is in fact towards us.
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There is no ‘down’ or ‘up’ in space Bretrick…Things just stay where they are put unless they already have a force. That force was when they blew off the sun and flew through space until they reached a distance from the sun when the force ran out and were captured in an orbit around the sun and didn’t have enough force left to resist. I would think that eventually everything will be pulled back into the sun.
First there was chaos and then order…We are currently in a period of order, but it will return to chaos in a few trillion years. No need to worry about it now… 
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That theory formed the basis for all the Chat Up lines 
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The purchase of an alcoholic beverage and a lift home usually swung it for me Spitty…
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They don’t hang in the air since there is no air nor do they hang (passive). Instead, they move in fixed, elliptical orbits around the sun at an extremely high speed, held in place by the sun’s gravity and their own motion (active).
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My question is justified.
There is at least one other person who thinks like I do.
In the SF novel - Farmer in the Sky - by Robert Heinlein - Bill Lermer, when he arrives at Ganymede to try farming, he muses, “looking at Jupiter from Ganymede, it is sixteen or seventeen times as wide as Earth’s moon looks, and it covers better than two hundred and fifty times as much sky. It hangs there in the sky, never rising, never setting, and I wonder what holds it up.”
good old Terry Pratchett 
I’ve never read a single Terry Pratchett book.
When I used to read SF I was more of a Dune by Frank Herbet type.
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Perhaps the Earth and all the planets are just Electrons orbiting around a Neutron (the Sun)
in some gigantic piece of Dog poo that is gradually cooling down…
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It can’t be that simple 
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… and then someone came along with a massive poop scoop and the Big Bang occurred all over again.
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We are all being scrutinised as scientists study swarms of life in a drop of water under a microscope…
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Did the scientists want to be studying such stuff when they left school?
I never witnessed such folk with that potential, maybe they were under the radar!
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The stars could just be the label on the jar
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I did Spitty…Always had an inquiring mind…
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So did I, but, it was much closer to earth 
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It’s a very fine line between fact and fiction Spitty, and AI is not helping…
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What’s done is is done, Ai is late to the party
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It is amazing that this model of sub-atomic structure was being taught in schools in the 1960’s and 70’s when I sat in physics and chemistry lessons. In fact, back in the 1920’s Niels Bohr had set out the likely model of the atom … and it looked nothing like the common orbiting electron pictures. I’d love to explain this better model but it requires explaining quantum mechanics - and who understands that? Something about electrons being in all places at the same time and only where they are observed when they are being observed. But definitely not orbiting any atomic core.
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