Solar systems are spread so far apart. Why is this???
2007-08-03 13:01:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Solar systems orbit stars and the nearest star is about 4.2 light years away.
2007-08-03 16:21:16 · answer #1 · answered by justask23 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a very good question, and the answer is that it is a funhction of the amount of garbage one star can keep in their own back yard. A star can only have so much. Anything more than that is against the law.
If they were any closer together, the interaction of the various gravity fields would suck planets from one solar system over into another and all manner of havoc would result. Comets would be trying to make right turns up there when they were supposed to go straight, etc., etc., etc.
People can only worship one Sun at a time. If the Solar Systems were closer together, maybe we would have two suns and everyone would be confused as to which one to worship, and get up to go to work by. With two Suns, there might never be a Party Time.
2007-08-03 20:16:44 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, if you were large enough (in size of course) and stand waaay back and look at the Universe as a whole, it would look very crowded.
Size and distance are relative to whom is making the observation about it.
We perceive it as a great distance because first, we are a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a spec in the Universe and second, we have not developed the technology to go far distances realitively quick. Remember, at one time the Earth seemed so big to everyone. But with the invention of fast airplanes, the world no longer seems so big. And, we can pick up a phone or email someone and instantaniously, sometimes to our dismay, reach them.
Once we can travel to another solar system, the galaxy may not seem so big after all...=)
But it's still pretty damn big....lol
~jaz~
2007-08-03 22:16:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, at first they were close together but them you know the theory of how the universe started to expand and stuff. So I guess that is why the other solar systems are so far.
But i don't get one thing...Where is the universe expanding??
2007-08-03 20:05:28 · answer #4 · answered by AD 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because space itself is so far apart! The nearest star to the Sun is more than 23,462,784,000,000 miles away!
2007-08-03 20:09:29 · answer #5 · answered by Chris B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they need space for the planets so they won't collide.
2007-08-03 21:28:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
so they won't collide into other planets
2007-08-03 22:48:34 · answer #7 · answered by Zero 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋