ingek73: hockeylvr42:ginalinettiofficial:hockeylvr42: ginalinettiofficial: jamiemclellan:Our solar s
ingek73: 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. Whenever life gets you down, Mrs.BrownAnd things seem hard or toughAnd people are stupid, obnoxious or daftAnd you feel that you’ve had quite enoughJust remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolvingAnd revolving at nine hundred miles an hourThat’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckonedA sun that is the source of all our powerThe sun and you and me and all the stars that we can seeAre moving at a million miles a dayIn an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hourOf the galaxy we call the ‘milky way’Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion starsIt’s a hundred thousand light years side to sideIt bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thickBut out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wideWe’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central pointWe go ‘round every two hundred million yearsAnd our galaxy is only one of millions of billionsIn this amazing and expanding universeThe universe itself keeps on expanding and expandingIn all of the directions it can whizzAs fast as it can go, the speed of light, you knowTwelve million miles a minute and that’s the fastest speed there isSo remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecureHow amazingly unlikely is your birthAnd pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space'Cause it’s bugger all down here on EarthSource: MusixmatchSongwriters: John Du Prez / Eric Idle / Trevor JonesGalaxy Song lyrics © Kay-gee-bee Music Ltd., Python Monty Pictures Ltd., Kay-gee-bee Music Ltd -- source link