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11111nata11111 [884]
3 years ago
13

How do solar systems, galaxies, and the universe show different frames of reference about space?

Physics
1 answer:
My name is Ann [436]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

Many people are not clear about the difference between our Solar System, our Milky Way Galaxy, and the Universe.

 

Let’s look at the basics.

 

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 Sun is just one star among the hundreds of billions of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. If we shrink the Sun down to smaller than a grain of sand, we can imagine our Solar System to be small enough to fit onto the palm of your hand.  Pluto would orbit about an inch from the middle of your palm.

Artist diagram of Milky Way galaxy

On that scale with our Solar System in your hand, the Milky Way Galaxy, with its 200 – 400 billion stars, would span North America (see the illustration on the right). Galaxies come in many sizes. The Milky Way is big, but some galaxies, like our Andromeda Galaxy neighbor, are much larger.

 

The universe is all of the galaxies – billions of them! NASA’s telescopes allow us to study galaxies beyond our own in exquisite detail, and to explore the most distant reaches of the observable universe. The Hubble Space Telescope made one of the deepest images of the universe, called the Hubble Extreme Deep Field (image at the top of this article). Soon the James Webb Space Telescope will be exploring galaxies forming at the very beginning of the universe.

 

You are one of the billions of people on our Earth.  Our Earth orbits the Sun in our Solar System.  Our Sun is one star among the billions in the Milky Way Galaxy.  Our Milky Way Galaxy is one among the billions of galaxies in our Universe.  You are unique in the Universe!

 

You can observe objects in our solar system and even see other galaxies at a star party near you-and rest assured that everything you are seeing  is a part of the same universe as you!

Explanation:

A solar system is the system of celestial bodies built around a central star, the Sun. All of the system bodies, be they dwarf planets, small bodies and large planets, are held in a gravitational bond around the central star. Our solar system has eight large planets:

Four inner planets which are terrestrial, made entirely of rock and metal: Mars, Mercury, Earth and Venus;

Four outer planets which are gas and ice giants: Jupiter and Saturn (composed entirely of helium and hydrogen), Uranus and Neptune (composed of ices such as water, ammonia and methane).

The solar system also contains asteroid belts and the natural satellites of some of the planets. The trans-Neptunian region has the Kuiper belt, home to several dwarf planets, Pluto among them. Our solar system is located on the Orion Arm and is part of the Milky Way Galaxy. It was formed 4.6 billion years ago.

A galaxy is made out of billions of stars and their solar systems, held together by gravity, with a super- massive black hole at the center. Our Solar System is called the Milky Way; it is a spiral galaxy and the black hole in the center is called Sagittarius A*. Apart from the spiral shape, galaxies can also be elliptical or irregular in form. Galaxies gather in groups, clusters and super-clusters and there are billions of Galaxies in the Universe.

Some of these other galaxies are visible to the naked eye on a dark night and from places away from artificial light sources. The Andromeda Galaxy is the most recorded one throughout time and all over the world, its existence having been noted since the 10th century by Persian astronomer Al-Sufi, and having been the object of debate among other great thinkers up to the moment when the technology caught up to the discourse.

Solar System vs Galaxy

So what is the difference between a solar system and a galaxy?

A solar system represents the group of planets gravitationally bound to the central star. A galaxy has billions of stars and their solar systems. This difference in size is not only visible in the number of stars it is made out of, but also by how long it takes to cross it. It takes one light year to cross our solar system, and 100,000 light years to cross the galaxy.

While the biggest thing inside a solar system is the central sun, the biggest thing inside a galaxy is a massive black hole. The planets in a solar system orbit the sun, which is at the center, and the Sun, in turn, orbits the center of the Milky Way.

Comparison Chart

Solar system Galaxy

A group of planets orbiting the central sun A group of planetary systems whose central Suns are orbiting the center of the Galaxy

Gravitationally bound Gravitationally bound

Can be crossed in 1 light year Can be crossed in 100,000 light years

Most of the system mass is taken up by the central sun It hosts a super massive black hole, Sagittarius A*

More solar systems make up galaxies More galaxies make up the Universe

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