What is the Sun's Orbital pattern in the Galaxy?
148399
A real good question, but one that I've never seen any kind of discussion about. It would be close to impossible to determine our Sun's galactic orbit because there are just too many variables involved that would periodically change the orbit--gravitational disturbances by other stars, galaxies, and varying densities as we traverse the spiral arms, etc.,. Also, it takes our Sun some 250-million years to make one complete orbit and we haven't been around long enough to get any kind of reliable idea of current orbital parameters.
679561
Earth and all the planets in out solar system are orbiting our Sun. The Sun and all stars are moving in space, but those other stars are not moving around US; they are orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Because the stars are so far away from us it takes thousands of years before they have moved far enough for us to notice it from so far away, but astronomers have made careful measurements with telescopes and can detect small position changes, which they call "proper motion". I googled "proper motion" and below is the first result.
731336
Hi. The universal expansion, if it exists, is different from orbital motion. I would guess that all galaxies have SOME non-radial motion, but the overwhelming part seems to be radial.
384805
The First law of Kepler is: \nPlanets move along elliptical orbits with the Sun\nat a focus.\n\nSo, all i can say is that the sun is relatively stagnant in our immediate universe.\nThe earth rotates along an elliptic orbit around the sun.\nThe moon rotates along an elliptic orbit around the earth.\n\nWell, all "movements" are relative to some reference point.
966439
Not precisely, but that gives a very good first approximation. The planets generally orbit the Sun in the plane of the Solar equator, which is what you would expect. There are variations, most notably that of Neptune, (and until it was demoted to "dwarf planet", Pluto.\n\nThe plane of the Solar equator is inclined to the plane of the Earth's equator by approx. 7 degrees, and this means that the sun, and all the planets, follow this path, which is called the "ecliptic".It gets that name because the apparent path of the moon crosses the ecliptic at two points, called nodes, and it is when the moon and sun are both at or very near one of these nodes in their apparent motion that an eclipse, either solar or lunar, occurs.
511079
GALACTIC TIME references Earth's movement relative to the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Galactic time consists of the GALACTIC DAY--one revolution of Earth around the Sun relative to the galactic center--and the GALACTIC YEAR--time for Earth to make on revolution of the galactic center.
592819
When the Sun has Sunspots you can see that they revolve around the Sun.\n\nIt basically rotates similar to how the planets rotate.\n\nRotate not orbit.
861683
The Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical.  When it is closest to the Sun it is a distance of 91.4 million miles.  At it's furthest it is 94.5m miles.  The distance between the Earth and the Sun is also known as 1AU (astronomical unit).
324411
Mean distance from\nEarth 149.6×106 km\n(92.95×106 mi)\n(8.31 minutes at the speed of light) \n\n--\nThe Sun is the spectral type G2V yellow star at the center of Earth's solar system. The Earth and other matter (including other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets and dust) orbit the Sun. Different latitudes of the Sun rotate at different rates; a point on the equator takes 25 days to complete a rotation, while a point at a pole takes 36 days. The resultant torsion creates the Sun's very strong magnetic field, which in turn drives the 11-year cycle of solar activity. The Sun accounts for more than 99% of the solar system's mass. Energy from the Sun has supported almost all life on Earth through photosynthesis since the appearance of the first organisms. Humans use sunlight for eyesight, warmth, growing crops, and powering solar cells.\n\nThe Sun is a ball of plasma with a diameter of 1.392 million km (864,950 mi) and a mass of about 2.0×1030 kg, which is somewhat greater than that of an average star in the Milky Way galaxy. About 74% of its mass is hydrogen, with 25% helium, and the rest made up of trace quantities of heavier elements. The Sun is about 4.6 billion (109) years old and is about halfway through its main sequence evolution, during which nuclear fusion reactions in its core fuse hydrogen into helium. About 5 million tons of matter are converted into energy within the Sun's core every second, producing neutrinos and solar radiation. In about 5 billion years, the Sun will evolve into a red giant and then a white dwarf, creating a planetary nebula in the process.
185636
Star pattern.\n\n.........*.........\n...................\n*.....*.....*.....*\n.....*.......*.....\n.........*.........\n...................\n*.................*
998170
Our solar system is tucked into a corner of the galaxy where the stars are scattered far from each other.\n\nThe stars are denser closer to its centre.
577859
Someone just added an extra "e" in it.\n\nOur Solar System is in a Galaxy called the Milky Way. The Milky Way comprises stars and other material lying within a galactic plane. Relative to the celestial equator, the Milky Way passes as far north as the constellation of Cassiopeia and as far south as the constellation of Crux, indicating the high inclination of Earth's equatorial plane and the plane of the ecliptic relative to the galactic plane.\n\nThe fact that the Milky Way divides the night sky into two roughly equal hemispheres indicates that the solar system lies close to the galactic plane.\n\nThe main disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is about 80,000 to 100,000 light years in diameter, about 250-300 thousand light years in circumference, and outside the Galactic core, about 1,000 light years in thickness. It is composed of 200 to 400 billion stars.
269567
Try the site below for information and the second link for a catalog of current orbits.  It's pretty technical but it should be fun deciphering.
599254
The Sun, its pull is making the planets in this system orbit.
440880
Well I am not sure if it is proper to apply the term to the sun, but the sun's apparent motion against the background of fixed stars is always in the same direction as that of planets that are moving in the prograde direction.
657143
DRFUN96...he da man!\n\nGood thing Yahoo Answers doesn't subtract points for wrong answers or most of the people who "answered" this question would be in the minus numbers. Maybe this is where the saying "Ignorance is bliss" came from.\n\nOur sun is moving around (orbiting) the Milky Way Galaxy at some 560,000 miles per hour. One orbit takes about 226-million years.
676514
The sun DOES rotate! It also revolves.