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What was one major problem with the geocentric theory?
The sun is the center of the universe, and the planets revolve around it.
What does the sun move around?
The Milky Ways Galactic core. A supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy.
The distance from mercury to the sun?
Mercury has a markedly eccentric orbit, so its distance from the Sun varies quite a bit. Its average distance from the centre of the Sun is 57,909,100 km, but at its closest approach (perihelion) it comes in to 46,001,200 km, and at its most distant it wanders out to 69,816,900 km from the centre of the Sun.
What is the distance between mercury and sun in kilometres?
Mercury has a markedly eccentric orbit, so its distance from the Sun varies quite a bit. Its average distance from the centre of the Sun is 57,909,100 km, but at its closest approach (perihelion) it comes in to 46,001,200 km, and at its most distant it wanders out to 69,816,900 km from the centre of the Sun.
What is the nearest galaxy to the sun?
The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest one to the sun. Our galaxy is the closest one of all.
What galaxy is the sun located?
Milky way is the galaxy in which our Earth and the parent star Sun are located.
Is the sun in the center of the galaxy?
No. The sun is in the centre of our solar system. In the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, there is probably a black hole.
The sun is the centre of the what?
The Sun is the centre of the solar system, and only that. It is not even remotly close to being in the centre of the milky way galaxy.
Is it true that the sun revolves in an orbit within our galaxy?
Yes it is true that the sun revolves, along with the rest of the galaxy, about its centre.
If the earth spins around the sun thence the sun spins around?
The centre of our Galaxy.
What is the main difference between the heliocentric theory in the geocentric theory?
The main difference - is the centre of the galaxy. The heliocentric theory placed the Sun at the centre of our galaxy - the previous 'geocentric' theory placed the Earth at the centre.
Is the sun at the edge of the Milky Way?
Our sun is about 25,000 light years from the centre of the milky way.. It's about half way out from the centre of our galaxy.. So our galaxy from end to end would be 100,000 light years across..
What is the distance traveled by earth in the universe per hour?
around the sun + sun in galaxy+galaxy in space= speed earth?
What is closest distance to the earth the sun Andromeda galaxy or Neptune?
the sun is the closest
How are the planet's moving in the universe?
Mainly the planets orbit round the Sun and can be considered as a closed system with the Sun fixed at the centre. However the Sun revolves around the centre of our local galaxy as well.
Does the sun orbit anything?
Yes, it orbits the galactic center.The sun is one of billions of stars that comprise the Milky Way galaxy - a more or less flat circular disk of stars that rotates about it's centre. Therefore, the sun "orbit" the centre of the galaxy in a manner analogous to how the earth orbits the sun.
What two ways that earth moves?
It orbits around the sun and it travels with the sun around the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.
