2007-02-12 18:22:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Actually, nothing can rotate around itself... Rotating is turning around. Maybe you meant revolve... Anyway, the sun can't revolve because it can't go around itself.
2007-02-12 18:28:06 · answer #1 · answered by theclassbookworm0615 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Star we call Sol or Sun rotates or is influenced to move by Universal Forces. It may actually rotate around a fixed point of the Universe. It is difficult to acknowledge with our perspectives.
It is a part of the Milky Way Galaxy so it does Rotate around the center of that. As does everything in a Galaxy. As we rotate around the sun, the sun rotates around the Galaxy and the Galaxy rotates around something we have yet to comprehend or make sense of.
2007-02-13 02:35:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
At the equator, the sun rotates every 25 days.
2007-02-13 02:27:33 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The bulk of the sun rotates around it's core on it's axis. If you're asking about it's orbit, then it orbits the galactic center.
2007-02-13 02:25:42 · answer #4 · answered by Mickey Mouse Spears 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does rotate, although at a different rate than the Earth.
2007-02-13 14:48:46 · answer #5 · answered by Tenebra98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is our axis thus it doesn't rotate but simply revolves
2007-02-13 02:25:23 · answer #6 · answered by TALLgirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No single body can rotate around itself. C'mon, now.
2007-02-13 02:25:36 · answer #7 · answered by mantle two 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
now just how could it do that? it spins on its axis just as the earth does but it cant rotate around itself,
2007-02-13 02:30:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does around it's axis and around the galactic center
2007-02-13 02:32:06 · answer #9 · answered by The Stainless Steel Rat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's a description from the "Ask an Astronaut" page.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970108a.html
2007-02-13 02:26:15 · answer #10 · answered by ecolink 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋