What does the sun revolve around?

Answer 1

Stars revolve around the center of the galaxy.
The Sun revolves around the center of the milky way galaxy.

Answer 2

The sun....meaning our sun doesn't revolve around anything..... It is one of but a few hundred thousand stars in the milky way galaxy. Our Solar system is on one of the spirals that revolves around the center of the galaxy. Think of an Octopus... Each tentacle represents a spiral and each one of the suckers represents a solar system like our own. I'm no astrophysicist but I can say that this is fairly close representation of what your asking... Good Luck on your searching and do a search on the universe or even NASA pictures.... there are some real pictures that illustrate the awesome sight that is the milky way. Sorry if I'm a little drunk and sound like a fool... but I hope my answer suits ya just fine.

Answer 3

Actually you guys are right about it revolving around the center of the galaxy. But if you follow the laws of physics the sun also has a slight rotation around the foci points of every planet's rotation in our solar system. Jupiter being the greatest. Since the sun always stays the same distance and there is no close large body reference to measure a visable rotation nobody can tell it does. But the laws and math proves it.

Answer 4

There are three answers:

1. Just like every other body astronomical body, the sun rotates. It takes about a month for the sun to rotate once.
2. Just like everything else in the solar system, the sun orbits the center of the solar system. It's a very tiny orbit since the sun is practically at the center of the solar system. This tiny orbit is cause by Jupiter's gravity.
3. Like everyone else already said, the sun orbits the center mass of the Millky Way galaxy.

Answer 5

Because the Big Bang released such explosive force and because large enough objects have strong enough gravitational fields to attract nearby objects, everything in the universe is moving with respect to something else to some extent. Although it happens over a far longer scale than does the Earth's revolution around the sun, the sun revolves around the center of our galaxy, and groups of galaxies called local clusters revolve around each other, and so on. A good analogy to elucidate gravitational attraction--the whole cause for revolution in the first place--might be the observation that a heavy object placed on a large taut sheet causes smaller objects to "gravitate" toward them when placed on the same sheet. Objects distort the spacetime fabric, and if the object is large enough, other bodies lower their potential energies by descending into that gravitational well. If they have sufficient angular momentum to avoid spiraling into the larger body, they establish orbit around it.

Answer 6

The sun revolves around the center of mass of the solar system, which happens to lie quiet close to the center of the sun. Simultaneously, it revolves around the center of mass of the galaxy, which happens to lie within the nucleus of the galaxy.

Answer 7

The center of the milkway galaxy. Randa you need to brush up on your astronomy! The milkyway is the galaxy in which the Earth revolves around. The Earth resides far out on one of the galaxies spiral arms. It takes millions and millions of years for one revolution. The milkyway is just one of countless galaxies in the universe...the Earth DOES NOT revolve around the universe and the universe does not revolve around the Earth! Sweet, your science teachers are complete boobs or you werent paying attention, I believe the latter to be true...Charles, you dont just sound like a fool....our solar system doesnt make up a spiral arm....our sun is one of some 100 billion stars in this spiral arm. Most of the pictures you refer to at nasa are not even in our galaxy, they are pics taken by the hubble space telescope of other galaxies. CUDOS to mofu and brax, there IS intelligent life down here! Good point kyle....this effect can be seen in the discovery of new planets in our galaxy. Its how they determine whether a star has one or more planets revolving around them. Over 100 planets have been discovered already!

Answer 8

Our sun revolves around the black hole at the center of the Milky-Way galaxy.

Answer 9

Our sun, which includes Earth and the rest of our solar system, orbits around the center of the Milky Way galaxy at a speed of approximately 560,000 miles per hour. It takes about 226-million years for one complete orbit.

Answer 10

Its the center of the universe. It doesnt revolve.