The Sun moves quite fast around the center of our Galaxy, at a speed of about 800,000 kilometers per hour (500,000 miles per hour). Even still, it takes the Sun about 250 million years to complete one orbit!
A few years ago, the most massive star was the Pistol star. It's about 100 times more massive than the Sun is. In fact, any star that massive won't be stable. The Pistol star got its name because it is the source of the Pistol nebula - the Pistol star is unstable and is constantly blowing off material, material we see as the Pistol nebula.
When a star begins to "die" it expands into a red giant or red supergiant. The largest (in size) supergiants can be larger than the size of Jupiter's orbit. Such a star won't last too long (only a few million years, if that) before it explodes as a supernova.
2006-11-10 04:39:40
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answered by kris 6
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Yes the sun is rotating around the center of the galaxy wich is also rotating around the center of mass of the local group etc etc. but the sun moves even with respect to the solar system:
as you may know, most planets dont have enough mass to have a noticeable gravitational effect on the sun but jubiter does, it is verry small, but, the sun does rotate around the center of mass of the jupiter-sun system, that center of mass is located inside of the sun if you will because of the huge difference in mass between the 2 objects, but the sun still wabbles as a resoult.
2006-11-10 08:03:26
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answered by alexqr79 2
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Just think about it, if the sun was motionless, everything in the solar system would fall into it.
A new red supergiant was discovered last year that is even bigger than Betelguese called KY Cygni. It has a diameter of 1.3 billion miles. I think it is more than two times bigger.
Kris, not every star explodes in a supernova, only the most massive stars do. Stars like our sun will go nova after the red giand stage, which means that it merely contracts until it becomes a white dwarf, it won't explode.
2006-11-10 04:53:04
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answered by Anonymous
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NOTHING in the sky is stagnant. The sun revolves around the galactic center at several thousand mph. The biggest stars are the red giants. I believe Betelgeuse is the nearest red giant.
2006-11-10 04:34:38
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answered by Anonymous
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the sun moves around the galaxy's center several trillion times faster than the relative sped with which the earth orbits it.
B. we move
C. beteleguese
2006-11-10 09:09:55
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answered by sciguy 5
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sun and all planets do revolve eiether in their axis or an axis related to other planets, sun is bigger
2006-11-10 04:39:04
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answered by david j 5
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