2007-08-25 18:34:52 · 7 answers · asked by Santosh Kumar G 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Our solar system is called the Solar system.
Our sun is sometimes called Sol. Hence, our system being called the Solar system
The Milky Way is the name of our galaxy.
2007-08-25 18:45:40 · answer #1 · answered by Demiurge42 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sol
The sun is called Sol so the system for the sun is the Solar System.
According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
"The Sun (Latin: Sol) is the star at the center of the Solar System."
Remember that science uses Latin names for the scientific names of things.
A solar system is a system with planets and a star similar to our own Solar System. A group of stars in the Orion (as in the constellation of Orion the Archer) arm of the Milky Way Galaxy are the nearest stars to us. Stars all collect into various galaxies, globular clusters or other formations. The collection of all the galaxies and all the matter in existence plus all the space between them is the universe.
The sun is NOT the Milky Way Galaxy.
2007-08-26 02:06:43 · answer #2 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Milky way galaxi.
Details:
Our solar system consists of an average star we call the Sun, the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
It includes: the satellites of the planets; numerous comets, asteroids, and meteoroids; and the interplanetary medium. The Sun is the richest source of electromagnetic energy (mostly in the form of heat and light) in the solar system.
The Sun's nearest known stellar neighbor is a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri, at a distance of 4.3 light years away.
The whole solar system, together with the local stars visible on a clear night, orbits the center of our home galaxy, a spiral disk of 200 billion stars we call the Milky Way.
The Milky Way has two small galaxies orbiting it nearby, which are visible from the southern hemisphere.
They are called the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud.
The nearest large galaxy is the Andromeda Galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy like the Milky Way but is 4 times as massive and is 2 million light years away.
Our galaxy, one of billions of galaxies known, is traveling through intergalactic space.
2007-08-26 02:09:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
dude..our solar system is called the solar system...maybe your talking about the galaxy? which is the milky way...
you fine? go to sleep.
2007-08-26 03:36:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The solar system! Do you mean our galaxy?
Its the Milky Way Galaxy.
2007-08-26 01:43:01 · answer #5 · answered by Mark K 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our solar system is aclled just that- the Solar System, (Although in sciene fiction, it's often called the "Sol System"- sol meaning sun. If we did colonise other planets, our system may be renamed as such to avoid confusion).
2007-08-26 02:00:19 · answer #6 · answered by Bob B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
milky way
2007-08-26 01:40:31 · answer #7 · answered by pokemon maniac 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋