2007-08-07 01:48:50 · 9 answers · asked by Cleveo7 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There may be more similarities between a solar(planetary) system and a galaxy than we realize. In a planetary system, a disk of matter surrounds a star until that matter coalesces into planets, asteroids, comets, dwarf planets, etc. That matter swirls around the central star(s), gravitationally bound to its host.
In a galactic system, (spiral, for instance) a disk of matter surrounds a massive black hole, with that matter coalescing into star systems and clusters. The major difference seems to be that the mass of the black hole seems far too insignificant to have such an enormous gravitational effect on the surrounding galaxy. Unfortunately we know so little about gravity and structure of galaxies to really be sure of what is really going on.
Current theories seem to favor the mass of the entire galaxy causing its own rotation as a whole, but the problem is that we must introduce another unknown (dark matter/energy) to make the model work.
Personally, I like to believe the process which creates moons and rings around a planet is similar to the process that creates asteroids and planets around a star, which is similar to star around a galactic black hole. This process continues onward and upward as galaxies merge and form larger galaxies, arranged in clusters, which are then arranged in superclusters...
2007-08-07 04:07:53 · answer #1 · answered by most important person you know 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Solar System is as a microscopic spec of dust compared to the Milky Way Galaxy.
2007-08-07 03:20:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is like comparing apples and oranges, or maybe more like comparing bricks and houses. The solar system consists of a single star (the Sun), eight planets, and assortment of smaller bodies. The solar system is a tiny part of the Milky Way galaxy, which consists of _millions_ of such solar systems.
Solar system is to galaxy as brick is to house.
2007-08-07 01:55:47 · answer #3 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Our Solar System is comparable to the unpopped kernels of corn in the bottom of a bowl of popcorn! We live on an insignificant little dust mote orbiting a minor, unimportant Sun somewhere in the backwater regions of one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy.
2007-08-07 04:36:11 · answer #4 · answered by NJGuy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The solar system is one star and the planets that orbit it.
The Milky Way galaxy is a collection of 100 Billion stars and all the planets that orbit all of them.
2007-08-07 02:28:31 · answer #5 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the finished image voltaic equipment (inclusive of Pluto) became the size of a .25 coin, the Milky way Galaxy might conceal the u . s . a . from coast to coast, and from Canada to Mexico. The disk of the galaxy may be approximately 25 miles thick the place we've been, and approximately eighty miles thick interior the proper bulge. Does that instruct you a thank you to visualize our length. AND to get an theory relating to the three hundred-4 hundred billion stars interior the Milky way visualize a soccer container with a 4 foot fence each and each of how around the sector. We purchase sufficient fowl seed to fill up the sector (4 ft deep) with birdseed two times !! it relatively is approximately 350 billion seeds. Then we scatter those seeds around the u . s . a . coast to coast from Canada to Mexico 25 miles deep and eighty miles deep interior the middle. you purely created the Milky way Galaxy to scale!
2016-11-11 10:57:41 · answer #6 · answered by costoso 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why bother, there is no comparison, the solar system is but a grain of sand in the galaxy.
2007-08-09 04:50:47 · answer #7 · answered by johnandeileen2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing to compare. Compare my Chevy Cavalier with a banana.
2007-08-07 01:51:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
my pussy smells like chicken. there. thats a comparison
2015-04-27 06:43:05 · answer #9 · answered by Gage 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋