Is it possible that our solar system can be bigger then some galaxies?
2007-08-31 15:32:32 · 8 answers · asked by kimber loo 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Nope. Galaxies are collections of billions of stars (or at least millions). And you couldn't fit billions of stars into a space the size of our solar system.
2007-08-31 15:37:22 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Highly unlikely if not impossible. Galaxy is a collection of solar systems (or stars) usually found in the millions or more. Milkyway is the galaxy our solar system is a part of. Stars would have to be too close to each other with their own planets orbiting each star. Gravity would be too strong to keep everything separated. If there are no other stars around for quadrillions of light years away, perhaps 2 stars can be considered its own galaxy, but none that we know of like that exist, and it would be very difficult to detect.
2007-08-31 15:38:38 · answer #2 · answered by BBHunter 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Galaxies are aggregations of at least millions of stars. Usually many billions. Our solar system is the family of only one star. If you imagine our galaxy to be the size of a football field, the whole solar system, (the planetary part), would still be too small to see.
2007-08-31 15:41:41 · answer #3 · answered by Brant 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Scientists are constantly finding out that the sizes of galaxies isn't confined to the number of stars within it's systems...Microverses are the newest findings, and they are more than 75% smaller than normal galaxies...Remember, that a Solar System is comprised of bodies orbiting a central body, so the fact that our solar system is almost 5 1/2 billion miles across is a good indicator that they're are definitely smaller clusters of stars out there.
We honestly can't ever know what all is out there, but we can assume that there are things undiscovered that we will never see...just use your imagination.
2007-08-31 16:05:04 · answer #4 · answered by nighthawk69 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
As large as it might seem to us, our solar system is pretty small astronomically speaking.
If you include the Oort Cloud, its only about 2 light years in diameter.
Even the small dwarf galaxies contain billions of stars - they just wouldn't fit into a 2-light-year diameter sphere.
Even globular clusters in the Milky Way's halo are anywhere from 25 to 100 light years in diameter (and they are smaller than dwarf galaxies) with as many as 50,000 stars. So they wouldn't fit into a 2-light-year sphere either.
2007-08-31 15:51:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, but we have discovered stars that are almost the size of our solar system. V V Cephi, for example, is almost 4000 times larger than the sun.
2007-08-31 15:42:45 · answer #6 · answered by justask23 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. No, a galaxy contains many star systems.
2007-08-31 15:37:41 · answer #7 · answered by Cirric 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-08-31 15:37:10 · answer #8 · answered by Scorpius59 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋