I won't ask WHY, cause I guess I can imagine the answer. Is it that the gravitational force between all the planets and galaxies is so balanced in relation to Sun, so it doesn't move as the forces are EQUAL in all sides of the Sun. Right?
2006-11-07 02:02:01 · 8 answers · asked by Chris 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Sun is orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy at something like 200,000 miles per hour. At the same time the Earth is orbiting the Sun at 66,000 miles per hour. At the same time the Moon is orbiting the Earth at about 2,100 miles per hour. And when the Apollo space craft were orbiting the Moon, they did so at about 3,800 miles per hour.
The reason Earth can orbit the moving Sun is that both the Earth and Sun share the motion of the Sun around the galaxy. It is kind of like playing catch in a moving car. The fact that the car is driving 65 MPH is no problem for you to throw the ball back and forth just like you would in a parked car.
2006-11-07 02:20:02 · answer #1 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun revolves around the center of the galaxy, just like all of the other suns in the Milky Way. In the center of the galaxy is a super massive black hole. This is the center of gravity for everything in the galaxy. It takes the sun, along with the solar system 225 million years to get around the galaxy once.
2006-11-07 02:07:57 · answer #2 · answered by bldudas 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every object in space moves.Nothing can be stationary in space.In fact galaxies are receding. Sun moves around the pole star. All these objects are in dynamic equilibrium. They are moving along their orbits with the forces well balanced.
2006-11-07 03:39:44 · answer #3 · answered by openpsychy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remember that motion in relative, so relative to itself the sun does not move, although it does spin, and relative to the center of the Galaxy the sun orbits. The key point is motion is relative.
2006-11-07 02:06:48 · answer #4 · answered by df_calculus 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it moves around a galaxies and it is perceived that we are moving toward the north star. The gravity that shapes most is the infinite black hole in the middle of the galaxies.
2006-11-07 02:16:11 · answer #5 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course the sun moves, if it didn't all the planets would just fall into it instead of orbit it.
The sun orbits the center of the Milky Way.
2006-11-07 03:19:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the universe is expanding, so yes, the sun moves too, both within our own Milkyway Galaxy and relative to other galaxies.
2006-11-07 02:14:44 · answer #7 · answered by Thou Shalt Not Think 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the whole solar system itself is travelling through space, around the galactic centre
2006-11-07 02:10:08 · answer #8 · answered by kwenzini 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋