rasninja: fireflyfish:hockeylvr42:ginalinettiofficial:hockeylvr42: ginalinettiofficial: jamiemclella
rasninja: fireflyfish:hockeylvr42:ginalinettiofficial:hockeylvr42: ginalinettiofficial: jamiemclellan:Our solar system moving through space.. yo i’m sorry did this just say our whole solar system is MOVING?????????? THROUGH SPACE????????the sun is stationary right???? someone please for the love of god tell me the sun is stationary??????? it’s tuesday afternoon i don’t have the mental capacity to learn that our entire fucking solar system is MOVING right now ????!? I mean I hate to be the one to break this to you, but everything in space, including the sun, is moving through space. Very quickly, actually. The earth orbits the sun at 64,000 miles per hour, sun orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at 500,000 miles per hour, and the Milky Way galaxy itself is moving through space at roughly 1.3 million miles per hour. ohiokaythank u for for the information i uhi’m just gonna. take a minutei think thati think that tomorrow i’m uhgonna have to askwhere the milky way. is going???but uh yea i don’t think i can handle getting an answer to that particular query quite yet Well since it’s now tomorrow I might as well answer your question about where the Milky Way is going. Really, there’s two different answers, a short and a long answer. The first, and shorter explanation, is that the Milky Way is heading towards our nearest galactic neighbor, the andromeda galaxy, and the two galaxies will collide within the next couple billion years. The second and much longer answer is that the Milky Way is apart of what’s called a “cluster” of galaxies. Basically, all the galaxies that are near ours. And this cluster is part of an even bigger cluster, called a “supercluster”. Superclusters are some of the largest structures in the universe, they stretch for hundreds of millions of light years and encompass hundreds of thousands of different galaxies. Our galaxy is slowly orbiting the general center of what’s called the Virgo supercluster, guided along by the gravitational pull of the galaxies around us and the structure of the universe itself. Okay, I’ll bite. Where exactly is the Virgo Supercluster going and did we pack enough snacks for the trip? So if you try to time travel its important to be specific with the space part, too. Or you could end out of earth, or even out of the solar system. -- source link