• Question: Why is the sun in the middle of the milky way?

    Asked by alan14211421 to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 18 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Phillip Wilkinson

      Phillip Wilkinson answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      The sun is in the center of our solar system because it is the most massive, so it has the greatest gravitational pull so all smaller planets orbit around it. In the same way Earth is more massive than the Moon, thats why the Moon orbits us.

      In terms of the Milky way, we’re not actually in the center. The sun and our solar system is in one of the spiral arms. This picture shows roughly were we are ->

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