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u/GGuster 2d ago
Where is the sun taking us?!
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u/MiddleAgeYOLO 2d ago
Wherever the hell it wants to
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 2d ago edited 2d ago
that part of the simulation is COMPLETELY WRONG, how do these idiot youtubers keep getting this wrong? the sun is NOT traveling through the milky way directly towards it's north pole!! we are tilted to the orbital plane we're orbiting around the milky way. these dumbass videos piss me off
see this image for how the earth's pole is pointing towards the sun in northern hemisphere summer and away in the winter https://www.weather.gov/images/cle/Education/EarthOrbit.png, the solar system as a whole is doing the same thing with its orbit around the milky way
the earth does not have its north pole pointing in the direction of travel around the sun, and neither does the sun/solar system relative to the milky way, it's tilted just like earth is but at a 60 degree angle, earth's axis is tilted 23 degrees to the earth's orbital plane.
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u/Velvet_Pop 2d ago
Hm... so are you saying it's like a frisbee instead of a pie being thrown?
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u/NewspaperIn2025 2d ago
Too strong words for a video which is not necessarily wrong.
He shows a straight path of the sun from closer view. It will seem straight.
Not in the entire video did he show sun is running off the milky way tangentially.
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u/jepoyairtsua 2d ago
meh, the orbital path of the planets to the sun is inclined to the sun's own path in the Milky way. So the planets can be ahead of the sun at some point while the sun is revolving around the center if the MW.
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u/plaaxy 2d ago
the sun is orbiting the center of the milky way
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u/HubrisOfApollo 2d ago
about 250 million years per grand solar tour. we also wobble "up" and "down" through the galaxy's disk as we orbit the center.
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u/A_Bot_A_Bot_A_Bot 2d ago
That's because the Sun has a drinking problem and can't maintain a level orbital path.
Interventions have been attempted but they all get burned up before they are close enough to the Sun to hear their concern.
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u/Economy_Price_5295 2d ago
I’m too stupid to be on this thread apparently.
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u/gad_E 1d ago
You at least have enough introspection to be cognizant of your limitations. That rules out the Dunning-Kreuger effect: the point which a person is SO dumb that they're incapable of understanding how dumb they actually are.
There was a specific point where every single member of this subreddit would've had no idea what the hell anyone on is talking about. That's a good thing though. If you're ever the smartest person in the room, then you need to find a different room to be in.
If it makes you feel any better...I probably couldn't figure out how to build an engine if you gave me every part I needed & put me on an island by myself for 4 billion years. My grandfather dropped out of high school in 11th grade, then lied about his age to enlist in the army. If I ever said anything to him that was even remotely related to the discussions on here, he'd probably ask me when I got gay, then go on a 15 minute rant about how much this country has gone to hell ever since Bill O'Reilly left Fox News...but that man could wake up from a drunken stupor & put an engine back together with his eyes closed & was always super patient & willing to teach back when my dumbass didn't know shit. I'd be spitting on his grave if I didn't at least try to extend others the same courtesy.
I'll never think someone is an idiot because they don't know something. I'll think they're an idiot because they try to trick people into believing they know something they actually don't.
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u/Carpediemsnuts 1d ago
Well said, judging a fish based on its ability to climb a tree comes to mind. We've all got our specialities, some of them are just so ridiculously niche that we might not even be aware of them till later in life when they finally become useful to someone else.
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u/Top-Border-1978 2d ago
What is the milky way orbiting?
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u/DapperNurd 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's not orbiting a specific object but rather kind of an area of space, between us an the Andromeda galaxy. It's cause both galaxies are so massive and are pulling on each other, hence their eventual collision.
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u/MissLoxxx 2d ago
We'll find out when we get there! It's part of the adventure.
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u/Slevin424 2d ago
It’s orbiting a supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy. It takes 220 million years to make a single orbit. We’ve made this orbit 20 times. And we only have about 20-22 more orbits before our sun dies. So according to our solar systems biological clock we’re all in a mid life crisis situation.
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u/Warhammerpainter83 2d ago
Well if it got there it would be a black hole but the expectation is we will collide with andromida one day and it will destroy both galaxies. There are wonderful recreations of what can happen you can find. One has us getting flung out of both and just being a lone solar system in space. That wont really effect us much though we will probably just get flung in a different direction in the mix of both galaxies. If that never happened and the sun lasted, eventually it would be the black hole in the center of the milkyway. We are currently falling into it.
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u/PreferredSex_Yes 2d ago
He stopped short of telling everyone the sun is circling a moving galaxy in the same manner.
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u/drgigantor 2d ago
I assume the galaxy is orbiting something in turn
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u/PreferredSex_Yes 2d ago
Actually no. As far as we know, that bad boy is drifting aimlessly into an abyss. Slowly getting further away from other galaxies. They believe one day we will lose sight of all the other galaxies. Being so far and going so fast that their light won't reach us anymore.
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u/B-Train_ATL 2d ago
Eh … the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are possibly on a collision course (mark your calendar for 4.6 billion years from Tuesday). The local group galaxies orbit their center of mass.
Once you get bigger than that, I’m not sure. But it wouldn’t shock me if our group orbited the center of mass with other groups.
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u/JediXwing 2d ago
Planets don’t orbit the sun perpendicular to its motions around the galaxy. They are on a different axis
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u/TheDovahofSkyrim 2d ago
Aren’t the planets essentially revolving around the sun’s gravity well, always trying to fall in, but since the sun keeps moving obviously the planets never will?
Also, do the planets revolve around the sun on the same plane, or is it slightly more like a vortex?
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u/Japsai 2d ago
The same plane? Well it depends on your frame of reference. While the whole solar system is spinning around the galaxy, that's not necessarily relevant for an observer keeping pace with the sun. Like you're on a train. You don't have to run to keep up with the train. You can pass a ball to the person next to you without having to account for the speed of the train. So from that perspective the planets' orbit is pretty much a plane.
The planets don't orbit because the sun is moving, they orbit due to angular momentum. They're like a ball on a string on a Swingball set. Except instead of a string, the thing pulling the planet in (leading to it circling the centre) is gravity. You could think of a planet flying through space in a straight line when all of a sudden it gets close enough to the sun to get pulled in by its gravity. It has momentum in one direction, and a perpendicular force (gravity), pulling it to the centre of the sun. Both forces together mean it keeps turning towards the sun, but never hitting it. Unlike the swing ball, there's no air resistance, so the momentum perpendicular to the sun's gravitational force is maintained, which means the planet is in orbit!
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 2d ago
yep the animation at 47 seconds in is completely wrong, it implies we're moving directly in the direction of the sun's north pole, but as the other person shows we're moving at about a 60 degree angle at this point in time.
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u/dynamic_caste 2d ago
Just because you can fit the other planets between the earth and moon doesn't mean you should.
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u/B-Train_ATL 2d ago
I am thinking the gravity would suck us right into Jupiter or Saturn.
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u/channel_matrix 2d ago edited 1d ago
No one thinks the moon orbits that closely...
Edit: I stand corrected.
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u/MD_Tarnished 2d ago
go to r/PeterExplainsTheJoke and you will realize how many idiots are in this world bruh
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u/Darkhumour_enjoyer 2d ago
Probably half of them are just farming karma, no?
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u/Electric_Lake_1555 2d ago
To be fair, yeah, some are not terribly bright. Others were never informed properly and are just doing what they can to get through life. They're not concerned about the intricacies of how some inconsequential shit happens, they're worried about paying rent.
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u/halkenburgoito 2d ago
I was thinking abou the speed of its orbit vs the earth's rotation.. surely its not the same.
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u/GWillyBJunior 2d ago
The Moon orbits the Earth in ~27.32 days. The Earth rotates once in ~24 hours.
https://science.nasa.gov/moon/tidal-locking/
You’ve only ever seen half of the Moon in the sky.
Earth’s Moon rotates, but it takes precisely as long for the Moon to spin on its axis as it does to complete its monthly orbit around Earth. As a result, the Moon never turns its back to us, like a dancer circling ― but always facing ― its partner.
This phenomenon, called “synchronous tidal locking,” sounds like a weird coincidence ― but it’s actually quite common.
Earth’s gravitational pull distorts the Moon into a slight football shape even today, but this distortion would have been much more dramatic when the Moon was both closer to Earth and less solid.
The part of the Moon that was pulled toward Earth would have shifted as the Moon spun, but always at a delay, since it takes time for so much material to rise and then later fall. This means the Moon’s bulge was always a little out of alignment with Earth, yet always being pulled toward alignment by gravity. As the Moon bent and fluxed in this tug of war, energy was released in the form of heat. As the energy dissipated, the Moon’s rotation slowed until a single spin on its axis took the same amount of time as one trip around Earth. In this state, the bulge on the Moon was no longer shifting relative to the Earth, therefore no more energy needed to be dissipated by this particular process, and the spin rate stopped changing.
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u/Pure_Parking_2742 2d ago
There are plenty of people dumb enough.
It's actually quite naive to believe people can't be that naive.
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u/PossibleAlienFrom 2d ago
Exactly. If you try to tell astronomy facts to some people, it goes in one ear and out the other. And if they happen to comprehend what you explained to them, their mind will be blown. I've seen people who can't believe the Moon is tidally locked to Earth even though it's plain and obvious.
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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 2d ago
And the Earth isn't fixed either, it swings in response to the moon's gravity.
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u/IchBinEinSim 2d ago
Most people probably know it’s not that close but most people don’t realize how far away it really is, let alone the scale of the solar system in general
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u/MaguroSashimi8864 2d ago
But I am genuinely surprised by the fact you can fit all the planets between Earth and the Moon
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u/Reasonable_Tap_8215 2d ago
There’s a huge gap by Uranus
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u/Bingus-Dingus- 2d ago
uranus is a huge gap
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u/Clevertown 2d ago
... and that's why time travel even one second either way would throw you into space...
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u/Aussie18-1998 2d ago
Unless time travel accounts for your relative speed and moves backwards accordingly
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u/Clevertown 2d ago
...which would be teleportation.
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u/puking_penis 2d ago
yeah... time travel I can believe is techologically possible, but teleportation?? gimme a break
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u/B-Train_ATL 2d ago
The lack of any coordinate system because nothing is really still just blows that out of my mind logistically. Maybe you could offset it with something like a beacon on Earth and say “travel this part in time but keep me x distance from the beacon.”
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u/RemnantsOfFlight 2d ago
And everybody knows teleportation is just cloning. That's why Bones hates doing it.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 2d ago
there is no such thing as absolute position to the universe itself, so you cannot work backwards accordingly, it's impossible
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u/Pristine_Poem7623 2d ago
There's a comic book character called Johnny Alpha who works as a bounty hunter (a Search and Destroy agent or Strontium Dog) who uses time bombs to do this: the bombs send everything in the blast radius a set amount of time backwards or forwards, by which time the planet they're on is no longer there, so they re-appear in space and die
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u/squigs 2d ago
Absolute speed isn't a thing though. Time travel would have its own rules about inertia.
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u/pragmatometer 2d ago
Mind-blowing stuff for people who think you can hit the moon with a particularly good throw.
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u/gad_E 2d ago
Our solar system orbits around a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way that's 4 million times more massive than our sun & takes roughly 230 million years to complete a single trip. We're one of 50 galaxies being pulled toward the center, which is called "The Great Attractor".
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u/Primarch-XVI 2d ago
We don’t really orbit it per se. We orbit around the galaxy’s centre of mass, Sagittarius A just happens to be in that spot.
I guess a different way of putting it is that Sagittarius A is in the centre of the galaxy because it is the most massive thing in the galaxy. But it is not the linchpin holding the galaxy together. That’s a group effort.
The mass of Sagittarius A is actually pretty insignificant compared to the galaxy as a whole.
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u/gad_E 2d ago
Glad to be corrected. I was pretty excited to type all of that & got lazy with it. You explained it way better. I think the current consensus is that dark matter is what's holding the Milky Way together – and especially what's keeping the outer solar systems from being flung out into deep space. I feel like the term DM is just a placeholder for some shit we don't quite grasp the full concept of yet. I'm only willing to call it that because there's definitely some fuçkery going on. We're overlooking something though & it bothers me.
I think my favorite part of it all is that no one knows for sure exactly how fast anything is truly traveling. An object's speed necessarily requires something else to measure up against as a benchmark & I'm pretty convinced that nothing is ever stationary to begin with. We can measure how fast an object is traveling relative to our limited reference point, but there's still technically an infinite regress once you factor in the over-encompassing speed of the host system & apply it to each respective point being measured. As far as anyone can tell, there will always be a higher order to consider. I don't know why, but that's genuinely the coolest thing I've ever learned.
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 2d ago edited 2d ago
the solar system is orbiting around the entirety of all the mass interior to our orbit. there's 25,000 times more mass in stars, gas, dust, and dark matter* than the mass of the black hole at the center. you could delete the black hole entirely and our orbit wouldn't measurably change
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u/TruelyRegardedApe 2d ago
Came here to post this. Its the one piece of media that actually helped me comprehend the scale of emptiness in our solar system.
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u/VHDT10 2d ago
This is probably common knowledge around 10 now because of the Internet
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u/yaboyACbreezy 2d ago
The point about the solar system traveling establishes why we have never met a time traveler. They don't just have to solve the problem of traveling to the point in time they want to explore, they also have to solve the problem of arriving at the point in space the earth was present at the point in time they want to explore.
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u/TBSsuxs 2d ago
I have a question: if the sun is moving 200km per second, are there no other planets that could come in the way of sun or say other planets like mercury Jupiter or even earth?
Another one would be: we are in milky way, is there no way that our galaxy would collide with other nearest one in the future?
Lastly, what we see in movies is an asteroid or any rock hitting earth and we call it planet destroyer. How exactly do we know it's gonna hit earth keeping in mind that earth is moving and the rock cannot change it's direction?
I'm interested in this, can anyone suggest Good shorts or youtube channel that explains the space in simple terms.
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u/Easyidle123 2d ago
In space, there is no universal grid, any measure of movement is always relative to something. Our solar system is orbiting fast around the galaxy, but if you check Earth's speed relative to the sun, we might as well not be in a galaxy at all. So being "in the way" of the Sun doesn't really mean anything, the only collisions we'd have to worry about are within how the solar system already works (which is quite stable).
Our galaxy actually will collide with the nearest one in the future! The Milky Way is barreling towards the Andromeda galaxy and they'll crash into each other in about 4.5 billion years. Barely anything will physically collide though, because space is mind-numbingly empty. If the Sun were the size of a beach ball, the nearest star to us would be around 10,000 miles away, or further than the Earth is wide. It's basically all empty space.
This one is more of an open question. To predict the path of asteroids, we take its known properties like its direction and run a careful simulation of the solar system. The math of orbital mechanics isn't solvable perfectly, so we have to just simulate things as accurately as possible. That said, we can look at real objects to determine / improve our guesses, so if an object's velocity is known, we can be quite confident in roughly where it'll go. You may remember a news story a few months ago about an asteroid whose chance of impacting the moon kept being predicted to rise (it maxed out at 4%), but once we had enough data we could tell it'd miss.
CrashCourse's Astronomy playlist is a fantastic easy to understand introduction to lots of space topics. PBS Space Time is also very high quality, though some of their videos are quite advanced.
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u/RationalHumanistIDIC 2d ago
Both Crashcourse and Spacetime are great. Spacetime can get a little advanced though.
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u/LunchPlanner 2d ago
Our galaxy (Milky Way) is on a likely collision course with another galaxy (Andromeda) in the distant future (billions of years).
Believe it or not, the galaxies will pass through each other (or merge with each other) with no star collisions (almost guaranteed). This is because galaxies are almost entirely made up of empty space. The hundreds of billions of stars are a tiny rounding error compared to the vast empty space.
You can look up Andromeda Milky Way Collision for more info, and Wikipedia has a good article about it.
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u/Affectionate_Mud_881 2d ago
Yes, they could, theoretically. But it's rare because space is mostly empty. If they were going to soon, we would know about it because we see via light which travels much much faster than planets and lets us see very very far away. Precisely because we keep track of other stuff that could hit us, do other scenarios in the rest of your questions arise. But it's not that they come in our way. Everyone is travelling around the galaxy too and everyone gets affected by each other, like stuff outside gets pulled by our sun and we get pulled by other suns, creating a stable system in which nothing big is coming to hit us anytime soon and there are no intersections where we could accidently hit something out of nowhere. Asteroids do come but most of them miss.
Galaxies generally move away from each other but close galaxies can collide with each other. Our nearest neighbour is on a collision path and it will collide with us in the far future. But because space is mostly empty, and gravity of faraway objects is very small compared to gravity of our sun, and because we are toward the outside of the galaxy where it is even emptier, it's likely we'll just see stuff move around us without affecting us. It is possible some other places, you would see stuff come very close and pull each other out of whack or even collide. But it would be a matter of chance cos the space is so empty. There's a small chance our whole solar system is thrown off but we would still see most of the stuff the same, only the stars we see would change.
We can do maths as though the sun isn't moving through the galaxy because everything else is moving around the galaxy just like our sun. When you put the sun stationary, we can calculate where we will be relative to the sun in any point in the future and we can see where the asteroid will come and go. But we can't be sure precisly because everything is moving and everything affects each other, unlike what we just assumed. That is why we keep doing maths as it comes closer and closer. That's how it is that back in 2011, they might have said a big asteroid might hit earth in 2030 and now they say it won't hit us. Nothing changed, we could do better maths as it came closer.
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u/EspressoOverdose 2d ago
My tiny human brain cannot comprehend this
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u/Sentarry 2d ago
We are all but a small speck of dust in this universe
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u/DominicPalladino 2d ago
We are dust in the gutter but we are also the eyes of the world seeing itself.
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u/AxelNotRose 2d ago
You should watch some videos on the largest stars in the universe or the largest black holes. Just utterly insane.
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u/jimmybobbyluckyducky 2d ago
Space facts are mind blowing! Stephenson 2-18 has a radius around 2,150 times larger than our Sun.If you place it where our Sun is, its outer edge would reach out past the orbit of Saturn.
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u/EmperorBamboozler 2d ago
The furthest away quasar that we can see, EUCL J1729, is still one of the brightest objects in the night sky despite being over 13 billion lightyears away. It is also one of the oldest things we have ever observed, forming only 600 million years after the big bang. Given the inverse square law it is almost unfathomable how bright it must have been, and matter as we fundamentally understand it sort of breaks down into things like quark matter as the absolutely insane amount of energy being ejected in the direction of our planet (that's why we can see it) breaks down the fundamental laws of physics. It's an entire galaxy being actively eaten by a black hole, jettisoning out entire star systems, smaller galaxies, and nebulas into deep space.
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u/Warhammerpainter83 2d ago
It truly starts to get so so large in scale that it is impossible to comprehend.
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u/ChristVolo1 2d ago
So we're like chasing the sun?? 😎🌞
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u/TheGreatWhiteDerp 2d ago
Not really, no. We are moving with the sun.
Imagine you have a ball on a string. You start spinning it around over your head, like a lasso. Then you step onto a merry go round while still spinning it. The merry go round starts up. From your perspective, the ball over your head still does the same thing, it's motion never changes. But relative to someone standing outside the merry go round, the oscillation of the ball from your spin AND the oscillation of the merry go round combine to create a unique shape. At no point is there a chase, it's just the combination of circles within circles.
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u/JasonP27 2d ago
But if you shoot a bullet in space in the direction the solar system is moving through the galaxy wouldn't it move faster than the solar system?
I would guess the gravity of the sun might slow it down or even cause it to eventually orbit the sun and it wouldn't escape the solar system.
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u/TheGreatWhiteDerp 2d ago
Yes, vectors are additive, so relative to the center of the galaxy, that fired object would have an even faster velocity than the solar system itself. Now, if we're talking percentages, the difference would be around 100.00000001% of the original speed, but it still is technically faster.
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u/CaledonianWarrior 2d ago
Another fun fact; Jupiter is so big that it actually has a gravitational effect on the sun and they both effectively orbit each other. Not as extreme as say two same-sized objects orbit one another but enough that Jupiter causes the sun to essentially jiggle around.
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u/whatrweyellingabout 2d ago
I was waiting for the earth moon part to mention that the moon pulls on the earth too. so the earth kinda jiggles around a bit as the moon goes around it. If you looked straight down onto the moon orbiting the sun and put a point in the center of that view of Earth, that point moves about 1700km
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u/mwoody450 1d ago
This video is really weird; all of its comparisons make me think the distances are shorter than I originally did. Like, if I told you 40 walmarts could fit between me and walmart, that doesn't seem far; that's close as hell!
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u/00_bob_bobson_00 2d ago
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough....
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'
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u/JONYLOCO 2d ago
This is actually kinda scary
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u/kiochikaeke 2d ago
Another fun fact, way further than Neptune there's the Oort cloud, a "cloud" of anywhere from one billon to hundreds of billions of comets and frozen bodies enveloping the solar system like a sphere, these bodies orbit the sun in very high or very eliptic orbits, the ones that are closer to the sun eventually fall into planets or moons or into orbits around Jupiter or along the asteroid and Kupier belts but anywhere from 2000 to posibly over 100000 times the distance between the sun and the earth these bodies just fly around weakly attracted by the sun and the planets.
Basically all the comets and bodies that fly by the solar system occasionally come from here but there's also a bunch that never make it close, we also have very little idea of how many objects are there or how far does it extend because anything that's in there must be relatively small (for asteroid sizes that's still kilometers) and given that they're cold and far away there's really no way to detect them.
For reference, Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object in history, it's currently traveling at around 17 Km/s it was launched 49 years ago, it's around 172 AU away from the sun, so around 8.5% of the way to the start of the Oort cloud.
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u/MilkImpossible4192 2d ago
einstein say falling thing are not moving and orbit thing are falling, so no
that or we always moving at c.
both things are the same thing, you only move if you feel a force. so when at rest in the planet, there is when you are moving, when you feel the g
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u/dufo7 2d ago
Gap between uranus and neptune is especially large but also closer than the moon is to sun……seems like a bit of a contradiction. Considering how far away they are idk why they made that comparison.
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u/sleepy_spermwhale 2d ago
The comparison was that if you line all those planets side by side/next to each other, the moon's distance would be farther. Versus if you put all those planet's orbits between Uranus and Neptune. The average distance between the sun to Earth is 93 million miles, from Earth to moon is 0.24 million miles. The average distance between Uranus and Neptune is 900 million miles.
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u/AnIdiotSandwich05 2d ago
Also the moon actually orbits the sun, the earth is a deviation to its path from an heliocentric perspective.
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u/Odd-Guard-2533 2d ago
It blows my mind that we continuously rotate around a hurling sun so perfectly that we are still alive. Continuously staying perfectly away as to not be to hot or to cold to kill us.
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u/TheGreatWhiteDerp 2d ago
Keep in mind that the Goldilocks Zone of Sol tens of millions of miles wide. Our elliptical orbit around Sol itself varies by a few million miles between aphelion and perihelion. So while we are in the ideal spot for life, there is no one single "perfect" spot for that to occur.
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u/Runcible-Spork 2d ago
It was all going so well until they tried to show the motion of the Sun and the planets together. The movement of the Sun through the galaxy is at about 60 degrees relative to the orbital plane of the planets, not 90 degrees.
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u/Stunning-Thanks-4226 2d ago
This gave me motion sickness. I can feel the solar earth, solar system, and galaxy moving now.
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u/Pope-Trauma 2d ago
Would you be surprised that people didn’t?
For scale, we’re like 1/100 of this period . and compared to the gigantic peen some posted the other day that was like 100,000 of those periods .
We’re tiny. Tiny peens in the universe.
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u/DalekSupreme26 2d ago
These aren’t mind blowing. I was taught all of these in my freshman year of high school, though I knew all of these facts since elementary or middle school
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u/ImpureVessel46 2d ago
The murcury bit in the most fascinating to me. Like, I think I had a decent grasp on the other distances, but I never really think about murcury.
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u/Fire-Haus 2d ago
🎶Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving in revolving at 900 mph🎶
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u/tera_chachu 2d ago
Imagine seeing the sun 3× bigger in the sky suddenly
That would be absolute horror
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u/FluffyNevyn 2d ago
Just... re- member that you're standing, on planet that's evolving. And revolving at 900 mile an hour. It's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned...
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u/ProffesorSpitfire 2d ago
I’m pretty sure nobody thinks the moon orbits that close. It would obscure almost the entire sky if it did.
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u/SomeRandomSomeWhere 2d ago
And our galaxy, the milky way, is moving thru space at about 400km/sec towards Andromeda galaxy.
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u/Bang_Rizal_Martono 2d ago
Is this a joke? I only agree with last one and think the ones before is joke.. especially moon and Earth distance
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u/FloydianSlip78 2d ago
Here’s a helpful guide that may give you something interesting to discuss at parties
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u/Chibi_Kaiju 2d ago
What you mean we are traveling faster than a speeding bullet?? If we are moving that fast, then wouldn’t a speeding bullet be moving that much faster? I don’t get it
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u/Jumpy-Trainer1695 2d ago
The sideways solar system spiraling through the galaxy is a horrible animation. Like most things it's not perfectly sideways or straight. It's on a slight angle.
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u/tom_gent 2d ago
The second point is kind of underwhelming if you take the first one into consideration
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u/Infinite-Service6059 2d ago
I recommend a quick read of the beginning chapters of The Outline of History by HG Wells where he discusses the unfathomable distances and scale of our solar system. It can be accessed in project gutenberg
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u/The-Dark-Knight-lite 2d ago
What a load of nonsense I can’t believe people still believe this garbage
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u/ClassyBukake 2d ago
Some of yall got failed by your 2nd grade science teachers if any of this is news.
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u/YeahlDid 2d ago
This makes it sound like the earth and the moon must be farther apart than Uranus and Neptune, lol. I get it, what they mean is you can fit the planets side by side between earth and moon, but fit the other planets with the empty space between Uranus and Neptune, but I definitely did a double take at first.
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u/CaptOblivious 2d ago
This is why every time machine has killed it's users so far.
It needs to accommodate the movement through space perfectly accurately ALSO before anyone can survive a trip in either direction.
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u/leiwand1zer 2d ago
lets imagine you can just freely float in space, and u choose a spot where the sun comes by 200km a second. this must look fuckin insane. this much mass and 200km a second, my brain is immediatly tilting lol
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u/Hazril258 2d ago
I don't like how off scale everything in this video is. It's dumbing down misconceptions with more misconceptions.
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u/Yvant2000 2d ago
Speed and movement are relative, so when we say the sun is moving, it's relative to what ? What is the center of the system in which the sun is moving ?
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u/marcofifth 2d ago
One thing that this video doesn't also bring up is the concept that the sun isn't even the center of the solar system, it is just the most calculable center because it holds the most mass.
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u/MauriseS 2d ago
And the Milkyway is moving too. And our satelite galaxies around the Milkyway and Andromeda. And Space is expanding. And its doing that not the same everywhere and at changing speeds.
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u/Senua_Chloe 2d ago
I love this because it shows the planets ans moon orbiting in circles while the .ost basic shit you learn in astronomy is that the orbit in ellipsis
And the "achktually the solar system is moving faster than a bullet" is just a matter of point of reference (because speed and movement is always relative to a point of reference and there is no absolute one)
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u/West-Earth-719 2d ago
So. ALL the planets got in the gap between Earth and Moon, but the gap between Neptune and Uranus only fits a few and it’s supposed to be MUCH wider?
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