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The Sun is moving.
How much the sun moves depends on what type of motion one is asking about.
There are several points to make.
1. Five hundred years ago, there was a great debate about whether the sun went around the Earth or the Earth went around the sun. That was settled with the Sun being at the center of the solar system with the planets going around it. So, people said the Sun was the fixed center.
2. But, there is some movement to the Sun. Just as the Sun attracts the Earth and other planets, the planets attract the Sun. The force of the planets on the sun do cause it to wobble some, but it is so small that it takes careful measurement to detect it. (As an aside, most of the planets that are discovered to be rotating around nearby stars are discovered because the stars wobble from exactly the same force of their planets pulling on them.)
3. The whole solar system is moving. The Sun is one of a hundred billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and they all rotate in a big swirl. It takes over a billion years for one complete motion around the galaxy, but we are actually moving very fast in this giant circle.
4. The whole galaxy is moving as part of the expansion of the Universe. In fact all galaxies appear to be moving away from us and, as a peculiar consequence of general relativity, those other galaxies see all galaxies moving away from them. (I guess there aren't many consequences of general relativity that aren't peculiar.)
So, the sun moves and saying exactly how it moves can be a little tricky.
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There is no absolute motion, we can only tell if something is moving and at what speed *relative* to another object.
For instance, lets say only one thing existed in the universe, a single particle. How could you tell how fast it was moving? Or if it was moving at all? You couldn't. But if another particle exists, and it moves towards or away from the first one, you can measure how fast it is going relative to the first particle. But for all you know both could be going a thousand miles an hour and one could be "gaining" on the other, there is no way to know for sure.
So if you're driving your car 50 miles per hour, that is not your absolute speed, it is your speed relative to the road. You are moving at thousands of feet per second on the earth relative to the sun, and much faster relative to the galaxy and faster yet relative to other galaxies.
So is the sun moving? Yes, *relative* to other objects. But there is no absolute motion.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 15y agoThe sun does move depending upon your point of reference. The sun is turning and it is moving through the galaxy.
You could think of the solar system moving together as a ship on the ocean. The sun is our mast with everything rotating around it. It appears as though the mast isn't moving compared to the rest of the ship because all the pieces are moving together and if there aren't any other ships close enough to compare to, then you can't see that the ship is moving at all.
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∙ 15y agoThe sun is moving constantly. We are moving around the sun, but we are kept in our general place in relation to it by its gravitational pull. So from our perspective, it doesn't appear to move. In the same way, the moon stays with the earth as the earth oribts the sun. As the sun moves, we move with it. It is moving within our galaxy, and the galaxy itself is also moving. So the sun most definitely moves.
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∙ 14y agoIt is absolutely NOT true that the Sun does not move.
When we consider motion of any kind it is always relative to something else. A car moves relative to the ground, the Earth moves relative to the Sun. Einstein once famously asked "What time is the station leaving this train?". If that train was on the equator and was able to move from east to west at 1,669.7925 kph it would stay still relative to the Sun the Earth would literally move underneath it.
Sun relative to the planets
Firstly all the planets in our solar system makes the Sun wobble slightly. When a planet orbits a star the gravity exerted by the planet physically moves the sun. Since the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system it does not move very much but move it still does.
It is because of this fact that astronomers have been able to find 340 out of the 431 planets orbiting other stars.
Sun relative to the galaxy
The sun is in orbit around the galactic core. We orbit the galaxy every 225 million years known as the Cosmic Year. It equates to about 220 km/s relative to the galaxy.
Sun relative to the Virgo Supercluster
Our galaxy is one of several galaxies that make up the local group. The local group in turn is one of many cluster of galaxies that make up the Virgo Supercluster. Our galaxy is moving relative to other galaxies within the Virgo supercluster. For want of a better way to describe it we are in orbit around it.
Sun relative to the Universe
Our galaxy along with most of the other galaxies in the Local group moves in relation to the CMBR. The movement is called Dark Flow. It is believed that there is an "object" somewhere in the region of the Centaurus supercluster that all galaxies seem to be moving towards. This is called the Great Attractor. The speed equates to about 700 km/s relative to the CMBR.
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∙ 11y agoThe Sun is moving.
How much the sun moves depends on what type of motion one is asking about.
There are several points to make however.
1. Five hundred years ago, there was a great debate about whether the sun went around the Earth or the Earth went around the sun. That was settled with the Sun being at the center of the solar system with the planets going around it. So, people said the Sun was the fixed center.
2. But, there is some movement to the Sun. Just as the Sun attract the Earth and other planets, the planets attract the Sun. The force of the planets on the sun do cause it to wobble some, but it is so small that it takes careful measurement to detect it. (As an aside, most of the planets that are discovered to be rotating around nearby stars are discovered because the stars wobble from exactly the same force of their planets pulling on them.)
3. The whole solar system is moving. The Sun is one of a hundred billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and they all rotate in a big swirl. It takes over a billion years for one complete motion around the galaxy, but we are actually moving very fast in this giant circle.
4. The whole galaxy is moving as part of the expansion of the universe, so the sun is moving with it and so are we.
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∙ 11y agoYes, it does, and everything within our solar system moves along with it. It takes the sun approximately 226 million years to make one full orbit around the centre of the Milky Way, at a speed of about 782,000 km/hr.
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The sun is orbiting the centre of the milky way.
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∙ 11y agoThe Sun does not move a great deal, at least in a way that we notice.
The answer depends on what type of motion one is asking about.
There are several points to make however.
1. Five hundred years ago, there was a great debate about whether the sun went around the Earth or the Earth went around the sun. That was settled with the Sun being at the center of the solar system with the planets going around it. So, people said the Sun was the fixed center.
2. But, there is some movement to the Sun. Just as the Sun attract the Earth and other planets, the planets attract the Sun. The force of the planets on the sun do cause it to wobble some, but it is so small that it takes careful measurement to detect it. (As an aside, most of the planets that are discovered to be rotating around nearby stars are discovered because the stars wobble from exactly the same force of their planets pulling on them.)
3. The whole solar system is moving. The Sun is one of a hundred billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and they all rotate in a big swirl. It takes over 200 million years for one complete motion around the galaxy, but we are actually moving very fast in this giant circle.
4. The whole galaxy is moving as part of the expansion of the universe, so the sun is moving with it and so are we.
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∙ 12y agoThe sun doesn't move because it is a star. Not a comet, not an asteroid, but a
star. Stars may rotate and revolve a little, but they do not move a lot. They are
just balls of gas.
Except for binary stars, which orbit each other. No others move.
And except for stars that somehow wind up too close to a black hole, and orbit
the black hole while their material falls into it, until the whole star spirals into
the black hole. None of the others move.
And except for the sun, which is orbiting the center of the galaxy. These are
the only examples of stars that move.
Except for all the others.
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∙ 15y agoThe Sun does move although it may appear static relative to our (the Earths) position in the Solar System.
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∙ 15y agoThe Earth moves around the Sun and turns under the Sun. As a result, for a person standing on the Earth, it looks like the Sun moves over the Earth.
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Why don't electrons orbit around the atoms nucleus like planets orbit the sun?
do electrons orbit the nucleus like plantes orbit the sun?
The plantes and other objects that orbit the sun are called constllations or a solar sysrem?
They are all called the solar system.
What keeps plantes in motion around the sun?
The gravitational attraction, between the Sun and the planet.
Do moons and asteroids orbit the sun?
Asteroids orbit the sun. Moons orbit planets and planets orbit the sun. So you could say the moons orbit the sun. However, moons are kept in their orbits by the gravity of their planet and planets are kept in orbit by the gravity of the sun. So in that sense, moons do not orbit the sun.
How many plantes are between the sun and Neptune?
there is 7 because Neptune is the eighth planet.
What allows plantes to orbit the sun?
Gravity Plus Inertia.
Why don't electrons orbit around the atoms nucleus like planets orbit the sun?
do electrons orbit the nucleus like plantes orbit the sun?
Why do the plantes orbit the sun?
why do the PLANETS orbit the sun? Because of gravity, the sun has loads of gravity so it holds all the planets in space.
The plantes and other objects that orbit the sun are called constllations or a solar sysrem?
They are all called the solar system.
Does the bathypelagic have plantes?
no there is not enough sun
How does the sun help plantes and animals?
It helps them to grow.
What keeps plantes in motion around the sun?
The gravitational attraction, between the Sun and the planet.
The plantes revolve around the sun once during each?
year
How does tinfoil help plantes grow?
it felecks sun light on your plants
What is the orbital time for the sun?
neptunes orbit time of the sun is 164.79 years to orbit the sun neptunes orbit time of the sun is 164.79 years to orbit the sun
How long does it take all the planets to make a complete rotation?
Mercury, Days to orbit sun = 87.97, Years to orbit sun= 0.24 Venus, Days to orbit sun = 224.70, Years to orbit sun= 0.62 Earth, Days to orbit sun = 365.26, Years to orbit sun= 1.00 Mars, Days to orbit sun = 686.97, Years to orbit sun= 1.88 Jupiter, Days to orbit sun = 4331.57, Years to orbit sun= 11.86 Saturn, Days to orbit sun = 10759.22, Years to orbit sun= 29.46 Uranus, Days to orbit sun = 30799.10, Years to orbit sun= 84.32 Neptune, Days to orbit sun = 60190.00, Years to orbit sun= 164.79
How many days are in the suns year?
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