2006-07-15 00:41:34 · 16 answers · asked by tarun j 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes, our solar system orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. So the Sun is not in a fixed position. And it is not someone.
2006-07-22 00:11:48 · answer #1 · answered by mspentinum 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I see from the other answers people are a bit confused. I think it is a problem of imagining scale. Perhaps it would help for you to imagine being on the moon for this. If you are on the moon, you are going around the Earth, and the Earth is going around the sun... OK? Now, extend this. The galaxy is an enormous wheel of stars, and they are orbiting the center of the galaxy. So the sun is going (albeit immeasurably to us), around the center of the galaxy.
Trust me, the Big Bang does not come into this. That's where we seem to see a misapprehension of the sheer scale of the Universe in some of the other answers. The galaxy which contains our sun and hundreds of billions of other stars, is part of a galaxy of galaxies, and they may well be orbiting some vast gravitational influence, or they may stand in relation to one another according to how they were blown off from the Big Bang. The Big Bang, if it happened at all, was Big on a scale most of us cannot imagine.
Many people have trouble with the scale of things on the surface of our own planet, which is tiny even just in local space.
The best way to visualize the scale is the exercise of tens: here's a link you may find helpful. it's a famous amazing thing:
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/
2006-07-15 11:43:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The position of the sun IS fixed in the center of our solar system. All the planets revolve around the Sun.
2006-07-15 07:44:36 · answer #3 · answered by sgt. pepper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Sun is fixed and all the other planets are rotating around the sun.
2006-07-15 07:47:47 · answer #4 · answered by john j 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun orbits around the center of the milky way galaxy.
It takes the solar system about 225-250 million years to complete one orbit (a galactic year)
It also wobbles because of the planets in the system.
So does the earth because of the moon.
2006-07-15 07:49:31 · answer #5 · answered by profit0004 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, the position of sun is not fixed. it is also rotating around some one.
2006-07-15 07:46:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is rotating around the galactic centre. We dont feel the revolution of sun as all the planets revolve around the sun along with its movement. As our solarsystem belongs to milkyway galaxy it revolves around the the galactic centre of the same. Our sun is only one among the billions of stars in the milkyway galaxy.
2006-07-15 09:02:42 · answer #7 · answered by bpv 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
after the big bang every single single particle is moving away from the center of universe so is the first proof of moving sun. secondly the Galaxy is spinning around itself and contracting spirally so the sun along with our solar system is spirally moving towards the center of milky way-galaxy,after millions of years our solar system will be at the center of galaxy and human being will find some suitable planet to live.
2006-07-15 08:57:36 · answer #8 · answered by neonym 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The center of the sun is fixed at the center of our solar system. But our solar system is moving in relation to the universe.
2006-07-15 07:45:43 · answer #9 · answered by laetusatheos 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is rotating around the center of our galaxy
2006-07-15 07:43:40 · answer #10 · answered by net_at_nite 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋