why a star has no moon and ring?

Question

why a star has no ring and moons when it has intense gravity? also, IF our sun is a planet, do we call the 8 planets in the solar system the moon? it seems only planets orbit stars, and moons orbit planet, what do stars orbit?

i know the sun is a star. i mean if the sun is a planet, do we automatically call out earth the moon of the sun?

Answer 1

The sun is a star, not a planet.

Even if a star "doesn't orbit anything," EVERYTHING in the universe is moving, so it doesn't stand still.

Answer 2

ok first off... stars do not have rings like you would see around saturn or the other gas giants. instead, the stars has those things call "planets". and also an ocasional astroid belt. the sun is not considered a planet. stars are stars. planets are planets. moons are moon. if you look at it in some weird sort of way, then the sun can be a planet and the planets moons..but what would the moons be?...thats why its not possible. and the sun, along with every other star in the univers, orbits the center of the galaxy of wich it is in. it is beleived that the center of the galaxys are black holes. so the sun wouldnt really be orbiting but more or less...being sucked in. but in a sence yes it is orbiting since it has a prejected time of repeatedly crossing one point through a circular path. help any?

Answer 3

Some stars do have large amounts of matter around them that can take the shape of a ring. Generally these are very large and massive stars though. Moons are to planets as planets are to stars, so Earth and the other planets are like the "moons" of the sun.

Generally speaking, stars including our sun orbit the center of the galaxy they are in.

Answer 4

A body orbiting a star is called a planet. A moon is a body that orbits a planet.

Young stars in particular are sometimes seen to have rings around them. These rings eventually coalesce into planets. Material in the rings that doesn't clump together tends to get blown away by the ion wind streaming out from the star, something planets don't have.

Answer 5

the sun is a star, so the things orbiting it are planets, because that's how it works. If something is orbiting a planet then it is a moon. Stars orbit the "eye" of the universe I think.

Answer 6

it is believed that the stars in the galaxy orbit a giant black hole but that is just a theory, as for the sun's gravity, everything in the solar system acts as the sun's moons like you said and there are things that are larger than the moon orbiting the sun and not other planets but they aren't well documented on because of the number of them

Answer 7

im not highly clued up but you talk about a star like its a plannet, i understand that a star is a cluster of other plnets with a sun just like ours but they are so far away that they all seem to just be one,

Answer 8

wow fascinating!!!!!