The moon circles the earth, the planets circle the sun....is the solar system itself on a path of some kind, traveling?
2006-10-27 03:35:14 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The center of our galaxy. Which is a black hole. Watch discovery sometime.
2006-10-27 03:39:18 · answer #1 · answered by gittit 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Our solar system is part of the Milky Way Galaxy, and it follows a regular path through the Milky Way that is guided by the gravittional pull of the galaxy itself. At the center of the galaxy, there is a void around which everything in the galaxy revolves. Our galaxy type is pretty common. It looks kinda like a donut with long, thin arms.
2006-10-27 03:45:05 · answer #2 · answered by nmtgirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our Sun resides towards the end of one of the spiral "arms" of our galaxy. The arms are revolving around the center of the galaxy. The galaxy itself is revolving "around" other galaxies in what is called the local group. This is even with the fact that the space in between the galaxies is expanding at the rate of the Hubble Constant.
2006-10-27 04:18:17 · answer #3 · answered by quntmphys238 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The planets revolve around the solar and the solar revolves around galactic centre(in approximately 250 million years). particular there's a black on the centre yet that no longer why the solar revolves around the centre of milky way. that black does no longer have any impact out here using fact it better than 70,000 mild years away. it extremely is the impact of the gravity from different stars plus the impact of dark concerns that holds the galaxy mutually and makes the galaxy revolve. Planets and stars revolve using fact of conservations of angular momentum.
2016-11-25 23:15:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole solar system, together with the local stars visible on a clear night, orbits the center of our home galaxy, a spiral disk of 200 billion stars we call the Milky Way
2006-10-27 03:46:46 · answer #5 · answered by Michael C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sun, along with the planets, is traveling around the center of the galaxy. One revolution around the center of the galaxy is about 225 million years.
2006-10-27 05:08:00 · answer #6 · answered by bldudas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun lies on the outskirts of our Galaxy , called The Milky Way , which is a disk of billions of stars.( The sun is a rather mediocre star.)Just as planets must revolve around the sun to offset the sun's gravitational attraction, the sun , as indeed all stars, must revolve around the centre.Of corses wherever the sun goes, its planetary system goes with it.
2006-10-27 04:05:44 · answer #7 · answered by Rajesh Kochhar 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course it is.....
Our solar system and all other solar systems in the milky way (our galaxy) revolve around the galatic center of the milky way. Though we can not prove or accurately detect what is at that center quite yet, it is most likely a massive black hole.
Just like our moon rotates around the earth due to its mass, and planets rotate around the sun due to its mass, our sun rotates around this galactic center due to its mass, hense it is probably a black hole or series of black holes of immense mass!!
Going further, the object at the center of our galaxy, and the objects at the centers of other galaxies rotate around the universal center, which would probably have to be an even larger black hole containing unfathomable mass even compared to the black holes at the center of each galaxy!!
2006-10-27 03:55:42 · answer #8 · answered by TopherM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our solar system orbits the galaxy we're located in, the Milky Way. At a velocity of about 250 km/sec, it takes 226-million years for us to complete one orbit.
2006-10-27 04:19:59 · answer #9 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being in the milky way, & if you have ever seen a shot of what the milky way looks like from 'above', it looks as though it is rotating around the galactic center...
Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" is a facinating series that has been updated & tells you all about stuff like this...it is in 13 parts, probably because it was done with PBS 13.
2006-10-27 03:44:30 · answer #10 · answered by fairly smart 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.., it revolves around the center of the Milky Way galaxy along with the rest of our neighboring stars.
2006-10-27 03:50:08 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋