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The galactic center is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 24 - 26,000 light years (around 7,600 parsecs) from Earth.
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What season is the earth closest to the galactic center?
What an interesting question, what made you think of it? Well lets see if I can answer it for you. The constellation of Orion (the hunter) is a winter constellation (i.e. you can only see it in winter when the earth is on the same side of the sun to where Orion is. Now if you look at the link I will place below, you will see that the spiral arm of our galaxy in which the Orion constellation is to be found is called the 'local spur' and this is outside the orbit that the sun makes round the galactic center. This means that in winter the sun would be between the earth and the galactic center. Thus the answer to your question is that the season when Earth is closest to the galactic center is Northern Hemisphere Summer. The galactic center is to be found in the constellation of Sagittarius (Sagittarius A). This is the same time the earth is 5 million miles further away from the sun. Is it perhaps the gravity of the galaxy that is pulling on our earths orbit as well, making it slightly elliptic? One can not argue that the gravity of the galaxy is not keeping the solar system and all the othe stars in orbit around it! I would like to calculate what that gravitational force must be to balance the solar systems centripetal force acting to fling it outward.
How many light years away from earth is galactic center?
Our solar system is estimated to be between 25,000 and 28,000 light years from the centre of our galaxy, the Milkyway.
What is the galactic alignment?
This is when the earth, sun, and the center of the galaxy are all lined up. Some folks claim that galactic alignment will cause bad things to happen, but that's nonsense because this alignment happens every year around mid-December.
How long is one galactic year in earth years of the solar system?
The galactic year is about (2.25-2.50) x 108 Earth years long.
How far away from earth is the center of the milky way galaxy?
approximatley 25,000 Light Years away
How far is earth from the center?
The galactic center is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 24 - 26,000 light years (around 7,600 parsecs) from Earth.
How far is Jupiter from the Galactic center?
The galactic center is somewhere in the neighbourhood of 24 - 26000 light years (around 7600 parsecs)
Will there be a galactic alignment in 2012?
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.
How far is our sun from the center of the galaxy in light years?
The Galactic centre is about 27,000 light years from us.
What is the Galactic Core?
The galactic core is the center (not the very center) of the Milky Way Galaxy.
How far is the surface of the Earth to the center of the Earth?
3,320kil
Where are you in the space?
Well I am on Earth which is in the Solar System which is closer to the Outer Edge of the Milky Way than to the Galactic Center.
How much time does it take for the Sun to Orbit the Galactic Center once?
One galactic rotation at our distance from the galactic center takes about 220 million years.
Which great center contains almost 1 million items?
A galactic centre.A galactic centre.A galactic centre.A galactic centre.
How far is your solar system from center of milky way?
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.
It is found at the center of the milky way?
The galactic center.
what effects how strong earths gravity is?
The Earth's mass, and how far you are from the center of the Earth.
