2006-11-09 14:34:31 · 16 answers · asked by kool5aban 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Sun IS falling-- it is moving toward the constellation Hercules, and dragging the entire Solar system along with it. This is called the 'proper motion' of the solar system. Search on that term and you will find more information.
10 NOV 06, 0356 hrs. GMT.
2006-11-09 14:52:36 · answer #1 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sun is falling. The sun is in orbit within the galaxy. An orbit is a type of fall in which an object is attracted toward a more massive center of gravity, but because it has a velocity component at a right angle to the direction of attraction, it misses hitting the attracting object on it first pass. It might take days or years or billions of years for the orbiting object to spiral in and hit the attracting object. I do not plan to be here when that happens to the sun.
2006-11-09 23:57:04 · answer #2 · answered by PoppaJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just as the Earth "falls" in it's orbit around the sun(the sun moves so the earth never actually falls into it), the sun does the same around the center of the Milky way Galaxy. It and it's surrounding galaxies(they are kind of culstered like grapes, good thing they are mostly empty space!). Are moving around something. Not really sure what. It's a repeating pattern. From the universe to galaxies to solar systems, to planets with lunar systems, down to atoms. And it's all set with center point with objects in orbit.
2006-11-09 23:20:39 · answer #3 · answered by golddigger360 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the Earth is in orbit around the Sun, the Solar system is in orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
If the Sun were to fall, it would be into the center of the galaxy, and that is a possible end to our galaxy as there is a black hole in the center. Even if this were to happen, it would not, for perhaps millions or billions of years.
2006-11-09 23:39:33 · answer #4 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is falling !
Around the massive, no pun intended, black hole at the center of our Galaxy... just like we orbit the sun, It orbits the the center of gravity in our Galactic system.
And the black hole wanders wherever it wants , or is drawn by gravitation towards it's counterpart in other Galaxies which sometimes collide.
All Galaxies do the same thing. There is most probably a black hole at the center of all of them ... and there are millions of Galaxy's and trillions of stars and solar systems ; where, in a few of them there are planets suitable to support life ... and life permeates the Universe.
God doesn't think, or create, small when it comes to us, and life, and the Universe.
In many millions of years we will be pulled into that black hole and cease to exist ... but I'm not worried to much right now !
Thanks for your thought inspiring question;
Jonnie
2006-11-09 23:36:47 · answer #5 · answered by Jonnie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is in orbit around the center of the galaxy.
Falling means "to be going toward something that attracts it gravitationally". Everything is in motion in the universe. Objects that are not getting closer to one another are either attracted more strongly by other objects, or are in orbit.
2006-11-09 22:51:00 · answer #6 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our solar system is a member of the Milky Way Galaxy, which has a core of much greater mass, which the sun eventually revolves around.
Our galaxy is a member of a family of galaxies, and they are also in relative motion.
2006-11-09 22:38:43 · answer #7 · answered by Action 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is falling...........very slowly around and toward the center of the galaxy we belong to (can't say "our galaxy" because it does not belong to us). Many scientists believe that there is a super-massive black hole, sucking everything up and causing everything to revolve around it. Kinda like when you unplug your bathtub. If you notice and use your imagination, you can see a miniature Milky Way galaxy with its arms spiraling and the center of the super-massive black hole.
2006-11-10 15:54:56 · answer #8 · answered by gleemonex69 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be careful of your terminology. According to Einstein's theory of special relativity, everything (that we know of) is positioned or moving as the result of the warping or bending of spacetime - including yourself being held on earth.
Science is just beginning to understand "gravity", it structure, composition, etc.
Gravity may, even, be a repulsive rather than attractive force (Hubble and Expanding Universe).
2006-11-09 22:41:52 · answer #9 · answered by Scarp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Milky way galexy holds it in place and it is falling we are constantly in free fall and it can only happen when we are in space.
2006-11-09 22:44:33 · answer #10 · answered by ★stargirl★ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋