the center of the universe is the sun...but when you look at the pictures of the milkyway galaxy...?

Question

sun is just in one side of it....
y??

im so sorry...not the universe...
but still..its not in the middle...

so whats the center of the milkyway?
the yellow thingy that i saw..???

Answer 1

The sun is most certainly NOT the center of the universe. It's the center of the solar system, which is only a billionth piece of the galaxy, which is in a remote corner of the Virgo cluster, which is only one of an uncountable number of clusters in the unvierse.

Answer 2

Heliocentric (sun at the center of the universe) scientifically went out of style shortly after geocentrism (Earth at center).

Today's theory is the Big Bang theory, which among other things means that the universe does not have a defined center. Even should aspects of the Big Bang theory ever be proved wrong, this one is likely around to stay - observational data just doesn't fit with the universe having a defined center.

See you edited, so:
Even at the galactic scale, heliocentric is long out of style. The Milky Way revolves around a super massive black hole at it's center.

The only thing that's heliocentric is the solar system - and even that is technically an approximation. (The solar system's center of mass is not identical with the sun's center of mass, merely well inside the sun.)

Another addition:
The center of the galaxy is not really something attractive to observe with the naked eye. It's quite spectacular on photographic images done well, though. Give you a link.

Source(s):

http://www.wunderground.com/wximage/view...

Answer 3

Heliocentrism (sun at the center of the universe) scientifically went out of style shortly after geocentrism (Earth at center).

Today's theory is the Big Bang theory, which among other things means that the universe does not have a defined center. Even should aspects of the Big Bang theory ever be proven wrong, this one is likely around to stay - observational data just doesn't fit with the universe having a defined center.

See you edited, so:
Even at the galactic scale, heliocentrism is long out of style. The Milky Way revolves around a supermassive black hole at it's center.

The only thing that's heliocentric is the solar system - and even that is technically an approximation. (The solar system's center of mass is not identical with the sun's center of mass, merely well inside the sun.)

Another addition:
The center of the galaxy is not really something attractive to observe with the naked eye. It's quite spectacular on photographic images done well, though. Give you a link.

Answer 4

There is no center of the universe, because we observe nearly even expansion in every direction. So the sun is not the center of anything but our own solar system. We are located about 26,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way. Because our sun is located in the galaxy's disc, when we look to the center, we see the spiral arms closer in. That's what the Milky Way band actually is.

Answer 5

The Sun is not at the center of Earth's orbit. It is not at the center of the galaxy either. A black hole might be at the center the galaxy we are in. The pictures you have seen of the Milky Way galaxy from outside it are fictional. None of our space probes have left the galaxy.

Answer 6

The yellow glow you see at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is from gasses from clusters of stars. There are super black holes (black holes that sucked each other in to become super massive) that are exerting a significant gravitational pull to those stars within range. These black holes at the center of galaxies act like the sun at the center of solar systems. Their gravitational pull keeps things together. As planets orbit around the sun, solar systems orbit around the center of galaxies (although one cycle could take millions to billions of years). However, stars at the center that are orbiting too close around these black holes become sucked in, giving the black holes even more density and thus more gravitational strength. Gasses from the surface of stars are sucked in a streaming spiral towards the hole, which in addition to the density of stars in the center of galaxies accounts for much of the glow of the center of these galaxies. Contrary to many beliefs, black holes can actually magnify the brightness of nearby stars by sucking gasses from their surfaces. (see an illustration of a black hole with a star: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole - scroll to near bottom).

Answer 7

The sun is considered the center of the solar system because all planets move around it. Their orbits were just formed so that it makes more of an eclipse shape around the sun instead of a perfect circle around it.

Answer 8

Our Sun is not the center of the universe, the Sun is the center of our Solar system, and our solar system is just one of millions of solar systems in our galaxy, then there are billions of Galaxy's with billions of solar systems, many of the stars you see are suns for other solar systems.

Answer 9

The sun isn't the center of the universe.

Answer 10

OOOPS...Sorry. You are confused.

The Sun is the center of our "Solar System."

The Milky Way Galaxy contains more than 200 Billion other stars just like our Sun, each of which also have the possibility of having solar systems comprised of their own various planets and moons.

Beyond the Milky Way Galaxy there are thousands and thousands of other galaxies. Each one of those galaxies also contain billions and billions of stars. And, yes, each of those stars could have their own solar systems comprised of planets and moons.

You became confused, it appears, with the relationship between our solar system's star to the Milky Way Galaxy.

For example... It is 93,000,000 Miles from the Earth to the Sun. The fartherest planet from the Sun in our Solar System is something like 4.5 Billion miles away.

The Milky Way Galaxy an enormous disk shape conglomeration of stars which is 1500 Light Years Wide, and 1.5 Light Years thick.