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What is the difference between your galaxy and your solar system?
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∙ 16y ago
The word "solar" comes from the Latin meaning sun, therefore a solar system involves a sun ie a star. The term "solar system" commonly refers to a star with planets in orbit around it, although it could technically be applied to binary or triple star systems. The important point is that the word "system" implies a star with at least one other body.
A galaxy, however, is another beast altogether. A galaxy consists of hundreds of billions of stars, all of which are potential solar systems. And there are billions of known galaxies.....certainly a humbling thought!
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What is the difference between your solar system your galaxy and the universe?
A solar system is a single star in this case the SunA galaxy is an area in the universeA universe is every thing.
What is the difference between a solar system and galaxy?
Solar System: The sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field. Galaxy: A collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust.
What is a solar system or a galaxy?
Solar system is a system not a galaxy. It is located in Milky Way galaxy.
Is the solar system about halfway between the center of the Milky Way galaxy and its outer edge?
The solar system is the Milky Way galaxy, Earth, and all other planets and galaxies are the solar system.
What is the relationship between a solar system and a galaxy?
A single star and its planets - a solar system - are a tiny part of a galaxy. It is like one cell from your body.
Is a comet in the solar system or the galaxy?
A comet is in a solar system. A solar system is in a galaxy, so technically a comet is also in a galaxy.
What are the differences between a galaxy and a solar system?
A solar system consists of one or two stars and one or more planets. A galaxy consists of numerous stars/solar systems.
Is the galaxy apart of the solar system?
No. The solar system is part of the galaxy.
What do you call the tiny part of our galaxy in our solar system?
"Our solar system." The "part of our galaxy" that's in our solar system is the solar system.
What is the distance between the solar system and your home galaxy?
2561
is star galaxy pulsar part of solar system?
Our solar system is in a galaxy called the Milky Way. There are pulsars in our galaxy, but not in our solar system.
Which is larger our solar system or a galaxy?
A galaxy. Our solar system, along with billions of others, is in our galaxy.
