The Solar System doesn't "rotate" around the galaxy, it "revolves". Rotation is when a ball spins on its axis, like a top. Revolution is when an object moves around a central point. For instance, the Earth Rotates once on its axis every 24 hours, and Revolves once around the Sun every 365 days (1 year). Our sun, named Sol, is a medium sized sun located on one of the galaxy's arms. As the galaxy (Milky Way) rotates on its axis, the sun, with all its planets, travels around the outside edge on the arm. It works like a bunch of kids playing "Snap the Whip".
Completely untrue. The sun is closer to the edge of the galaxy than to the center, about two thirds of the way out. It does not occupy any special place in the galaxy. It orbits the galactic center just like all the others. At the center of the galaxy is a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times the mass of the sun.
A galaxy rotates about a central "area" that represents the center of gravity for all the stars that make it up. That said, we generally don't see a galaxy orbit another one. If two galaxies get "too close" to each other, they will pull each other together and "interact" in some way. There is a bit more. A local groupthat is made up of several galaxies that are bound by gravity might orbit one or two "central" galaxies.
Use the link below for something amazing. You'll see an image of the galactic pair M81 and M82, and you'll be able to read a bit about a pair of galaxies that had a "date" in the long ago.
Well, not exactly.
"Solar system" is the name we use to refer to the sun plus everything that's
gravitationally bound to it.
Each individual body gravitationally bound to the sun does revolve around it, but
each one at its own speed ... the whole thing doesn't all rotate as a single unit.
The Sun moves around the center of our galaxy, and takes perhaps 200 million years to do so. For this kind of movement - movement of an object around another object - instead of "rotate", the word "revolve" is used.
Gravity! If the Sun (and all other stars and objects in the Milky Way) didn't orbit the center, they would eventually fall in to the central super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
There is no sun in the center of the milky way. There is one in our local solar system and its name is Sol. In the center on the milky way exists a super-massive black hole.
No. The sun is actually in the top 5% of stars in terms of size.
It moves around the center of the Milky Way, and takes an estimated 200 million years to do so.
The Sun rotates round the galaxy, and the planets follow along with it. The whole solar system was already rotating round the galaxy when it was formed so there has been no change there.
As viewed from the galactic north, the Sun orbits in a clockwise motion
One galactic rotation at our distance from the galactic center takes about 220 million years.
clockwise around the sun
Eclipse of the sun
The Sun is about 27,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way, roughly 2/3rds the way out from the center to the edge of the galactic disk.
Clockwise.
As viewed from the galactic north, the Sun orbits in a clockwise motion
No!The Sun orbits around the galactic center, one revolution in about 220 000 000 years.
Yes, there's a galactic alignment every year. As the earth goes around the sun, at one point the earth, sun, and the center of the galaxy line up.
One galactic rotation at our distance from the galactic center takes about 220 million years.
The sun is in an enormous orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. It is estimated that it takes between 225 and 250 million years for the sun to make one orbit, called a galactic year. We are traveling around the center of the galaxy at a rate of about 220 km/second, which is .073% of the speed of light.
The sun rotates on its axis and revolves around the galactic centre.
The Sun has a period around the galactic center (which is normally taken to be Sgr A*) of T~2.5 x 10^8 years = 250 Myr, meaning it will complete a turn around the galaxy in that time.The angular speed of the Sun around the gal. center will then be w = 2*pi/T = .025 rad/Myr.
The sun revolves around the galactic center in about 220 million years, give or take 20 million years or so.
Looking at the Sun and Venus from galactic north (in the vicinity of Polaris) Venus revolves around the Sun in a counter-clockwise direction with a period of 224.7 Earth days. Using the same reference point, Venus rotates on its axis in a clockwise, or retrograde, direction, with a period of 243 days.
clockwise around the sun
It takes the sun to complete one orbit (a galactic year) of our home galaxy: 226 million years