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Our Solar System Of Galaxy
Our sun is just one star among the hundreds of billions of stars in our milky way galaxy. Our solar system consists of our star the sun and everything bound to it by gravity the planets mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus and neptune dwarf planets such as pluto dozens of moons and millions of asteroids comets and meteoroids.
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Thats just how many weve found so far.
Our solar system of galaxy. This galaxy is thought to contain more than 200 billion different stars. Our planetary system is the only one officially called solar system but astronomers have discovered more than 2500 other stars with planets orbiting them in our galaxy. The planetary system we call home is located in an outer spiral arm of the milky way galaxy.
The stars in the innermost 10000 light years form a bulge and one or more bars that radiate from the bulge. Our solar system consists of our star the sun and its orbiting planets including earth along with numerous moons asteroids comet material rocks and dust. Our solar system should be a gazillion times smaller compared to the milky way.
If this animation was to scale you could not see the solar system the sun or any of the planets. Earth and its neighbors dont orbit within the plane of the galaxy. The solar system lies about 30000 light years from the galactic center and about 20 light years above the plane of the galaxy.
It takes the earths solar system roughly 200 to 250 million years to complete its orbit. The solar system is located at a radius of about 27000 light years from the galactic center on the inner edge of the orion arm one of the spiral shaped concentrations of gas and dust. The solar system is located near the inner rim of the orion arm a minor spiral arm located between the carinasagittarius arm and the perseus arm.
The galaxy that contains the earth and its solar system is called the milky way. Our solar system orbits the center of the milky way galaxy at about 515000 mph 828000 kph. Were in one of the galaxys four spiral arms.
Solar systems orbit around their galaxies just as planets orbit around their suns. Our solar system is just one specific planetary systema star with planets orbiting around it.
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