Does the sun go clockwise around the galactic center?

Answer 1

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".

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

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.

Answer 7

Yes, the sun and the rest of the Milky Way galaxy rotate in a counterclockwise direction around the galactic center.

Answer 8

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.

Answer 9

No. The sun is actually in the top 5% of stars in terms of size.

Answer 10

It moves around the center of the Milky Way, and takes an estimated 200 million years to do so.