Does the Sun revolve around the milkyway? Does the milkway move or orbit something at all?

Question

I read somewhere that the sun revolves around the milkyway, is this correct?
Does the milkyway move at all...?
When the sun moves, is it always orbiting the same pathway? Or does it continue to orbit the milkway but have the milkway move and therefor always be in a different spot?

Im asking this because if the Earth Orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the milkway, does the milkway orbit something or move at all?
If it does, that could mean we are traveling all around space and never be in the same spot in space.

Maybe in thousands of years, if we move with the milkway we may discover something. Something different in space... maybe we could colide with another solar system? Or get caught in another solar systems orbit?

That question probably confused everyone cause im not good with my words, but please try and answer it...
thanks

Patchy

Answer 1

You got several correct answers. Lets clarify and summarize

1. The Earth is located in the "Orion Arm" of the Milky way..

2. The Earth goes around the Milky Way in approx 230 million yrs

3. The Milky Way is a part of the "Local Group" which is a cluster
of twenty some gravitationally interacting nearby galaxies.

4. The Local Group is moving towards the Virgo Super Cluster.

5. Both the Local Group and the VSC is moving towards
"The Great Attractor"

Answer 2

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, which means that it is made up of stars that orbit around the center of the galaxy, which is probably a supermassive black hole. It does not make sense to say the sun orbits the Milky Way because the sun is part of the Milky Way. However the sun orbits around the center of the Milky Way. It is certainly possible that the solar system could interact with another star, although it would probably take a lot more than a few thousand years. Also, the entire galaxy is expected to collide with the Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years, and when that happens the solar system could interact with a star from the Andromeda galaxy

Answer 3

The Sun does revolve around the Milky Way on an almost circular orbit with a speed of about 220km/s. The Sun completes one revolution in about 230 million years. The Milky Way also moves - we are moving towards or nearest neighbour the Andromeda galaxy and both the Milky Way and Andromeda (which make up most of what we call the 'Local Group of galaxies') are moving towards the Virgo Cluster which is our nearest cluster of galaxies. Nothing seems to stand still at all!

Answer 4

The sun is in the milky way, it revolves around the galactic center, which is nougat and caramel (actually a cluster of stars and dust, and possibly a supermassive black hole). The milky way is not orbiting any other object, although it's in a long, drawn-out dance with the Andromeda galaxy. Eventually the two galaxies will merge.

Here is some info from my blog: From Earth, all the stars visible to the naked eye are from our own galaxy, the Milky Way, in which there are approximately 300 billion stars. There are about 8000-9000 visible from Earth under ideal circumstances, but only about 2500 are visible from any one point at a given time. There are hundreds of billions (if not an infinite number) of galaxies like the Milky Way. The only one barely visible to the naked eye is Andromeda. The nearest star is Alpha Centuri. It's about 4.3 light years from Earth (about 25.8 trillion miles). Which sucks because it would take 10,000 years to get there in a space ship travelling at 25,000 mph. To put it another way -- if 1 inch equalled 1 million miles, Alpha Centuri would be about 400 miles away.

Answer 5

The Sun does have a revolution but not in the Milky Way, the Sun revolves somewhere in the centre of the milky way, one revolution takes 3.28 million years I believe.

Has for the Milky Way, yes it does change spots, due to the expansion of the Universe, the Milky Way galaxy moves has the Universe expands.

We won't collide with another Star-Planet system or anything except that Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are due to collide in a few million years.

We will never get caught in another orbit, something could smack into us but the Sun has us tight, don't worry about that.

Answer 6

yeah, the solar sys is moving around the milky way

and the milky way is moving away of other galaxies. the universe is expanding

Answer 7

"According to Genesis 1: 14-17 the Sun and moon are set in a solid firmament around the Earth" can you please elaborate that as i don't see it.... "Also, according to Psalms 93 and 1 Chronicles 16, the Earth is fixed in place and cannot move." in case you didn't know "the world" doesn't always refer to the physical earth.

Answer 8

i think you need to break out your earth science book. we are in the milkyway galaxy. therefore the sun can not revolve around something in which its in.....make sence?