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2007-01-05 08:02:09 · 14 answers · asked by rosendo v 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It does move. It orbits the core of the Milky Way Galaxy at about 80,000 light years distance. Takes several hundred million years to make one orbit. With any motion through spacetime, you always have to ask, moving relative to what?
2007-01-05 08:04:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wrong. The sun does move. It spins within our galaxy called 'The Milky Way' swirling around other stars within 'The Milky Way' at about 24,000 miles per hour. We don't feel the motion just as you don't feel the motion of the earth spinning like a top in space.
Our galaxy 'The Milky Way' which is made up of billions of stars like our sun is also hurtling through the universe at an astonishing rate. All of the galaxies our racing through the universe and spreading further and further apart. Sort of like knocking over a jar of marbles.
The nearest inhabital solar system to ours is called 'Alpha Centauri' it is about 4.3 light years from here. It is a twin star system.
2007-01-05 16:12:05 · answer #2 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FYI, the Sun does move.
The Sun revolves around the Milky Way in an almost circular orbit with a speed of about 220km/s. At this speed, the Sun completes one revolution every 230 million years or so.
The Milky Way also moves. In fact, we are moving toward our nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, and both the Milky Way and Andromeda are moving towards the Virgo Cluster which is our nearest cluster of galaxies.
2007-01-05 16:07:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sun DOES move. Our entire solar system revolves around the center of the galaxy, and the galaxy is moving through space at incredible speeds. Plus, the familiar constellations, dipper, orion, cassiopeia, will all look totally different in a few thousand years, due to movement in different directions of the stars in them.
2007-01-05 16:06:31 · answer #4 · answered by Scottyboy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It DOES move the entire solar system is traveling through space at what is it? I think 20,000 miles and hour and the sun revolves on its own axis. We just percieve it as stationary because the earth is traveling at the same speed.
2007-01-05 16:06:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because that's the way we defined it.
It doesn't move relative to the center of mass of our solar system, as, by definition (and mass/gravity) it IS the center of our solar system.
However, our solar system is drifting out on an arm of the Milky Way galaxy, which is rotating, and which is moving relative to the other galaxies.
2007-01-05 16:05:56 · answer #6 · answered by Morey000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, actually it has to... this solar system is not a closed bubble of planets revolving around the sun. Of-course you can always subscribe to the notion that its all in your head, that nothing is real... but then are you talking to yourself when you receive this answer? If so, then why are your thoughts compartmentalized... many questions will follow. Methaphysics is where your answer lies.
2007-01-05 16:07:26 · answer #7 · answered by DoorWay 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The sun is rocking!! you knuckle-head!! It is part of the Milky Way Galaxy which happens to be whizzing along at a speed of 500,000 mph OK??!! It's ******' wailin.
2007-01-05 16:10:13 · answer #8 · answered by Bob Loblaw 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sun is way tooo hot to move itself. Like when you get burnt all over your body, you can't move. That's what my neighbor said.
2007-01-05 18:42:55 · answer #9 · answered by area52 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FYI no you don't
Everything is relative.
The sun is idle relative to us
Is the sun / Milky way idle relative to the universe? no info on that till now.
2007-01-05 16:10:31 · answer #10 · answered by damiraza 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋