If you go south of Earth, like your in space and you go to the bottom of earth, and keep traveling down...?

Question

will you eventually find other galaxies and planets, the same with if you go up towards earth like if you go over earth in you ship and keep going up, i hope you guys know what i mean, ive had this question on my head for a while, thanks.

Not inside Earth in space.

Answer 1

There are stars and galaxies in all directions from Earth, including north and south (parallel to Earth's axis).

In fact, you can see these stars easily. If you live in the northern hemisphere, and have ever seen Polaris, the North Star, that is a star that lies very near to the point directly north of the earth, parallel to earth's axis.

If you live in the southern hemispere, there is a dimmer star called Sigma Octans that lies near the point directly south of the earth, parallel to earth's axis.

Answer 2

Good question!

You won't find any planets in our own solar system, because they're all in the ecliptic plane, and the south pole points away from that. Eventually you will reach other stars in our own galaxy, and even later pass out of our galaxy into intergalactic space, and eventually encounter other galaxies. Software like Starry Night includes a spaceship mode that lets you actually view things like this. It can take you to another star, and let you look back at the Sun, or to another galaxy, and let you look back at the Milky Way (an artist's conception, since we don't have any pictures of the Milky Way from outside).

Answer 3

If you travel in ANY direction you'll eventually find other planets (besides the ones in our solar system) and galaxies.

The thing is though, it'll take AGES.

Planets revolve around a star right?
The nearest star, besides the sun, is 4.2 lightyears away.

You won't ever reach another solar system in this lifetime, or another galaxy because a galaxy is a COLLECTION of solar systems and stars and planets and gas and dust haha.

it's pretty awesome.

Random facts to put it into perspective:
if the distance between the Sun and the Earth is one inch, the nearest large galaxy is two million miles away

"If your teacher drives at 70 mph down the Solar System motorway, it will take him/her:
- nearly 5 months to reach the Moon;
- 150 years to reach the Sun;
- about 4500 years to reach Neptune;
- 40 million years to reach the nearest star."

I think astronomy is the coolest thing ever hahaa :)

Answer 4

Yes, there are stars and galaxies in every direction from Earth, including above the south pole.

Answer 5

Q1 -- only on axis - and we jump a little up and down like a wave .. imagine earth on space fabric... and it is pulled by suns gravity hence the tilt. Q2 is Stupid Question it too hot in the Core and if it was cold we may lose lot of gravity and if managed to dig we would get stuck in between having to fall and then climb ..

Answer 6

Yes you would eventually run into something else, though it would be a really ridiculously long way away. Other planets and galaxies don't just exist in the ecliptic plane.

Answer 7

Yes. The shape of the Universe extends equally all around us in all directions.