Planet Earth Solar System Milky Way Galaxy

Orbit of the solar system.

Planet earth solar system milky way galaxy.

Earth is well equipped as a planet and ideally placed in our solar system and galaxy to support life as we know it. This galaxy is thought to contain more than 200 billion different. But where is our solar system. It was only after many centuries.

The minor arms are primarily filled with gas and pockets of star forming activity. There is evidence that extragalactic planets exoplanets farther away in galaxies beyond the local milky way galaxy may exist. Our milky way galaxy is just one of billions of galaxies in the universe. A galaxy is a system of solar systems and other stars.

Earth the solar system oort cloud local fluff local bubble orion arm milky way galaxy local group virgo supercluster laniakea supercluster universe. A galaxy is a huge collection of gas dust and billions of stars and their solar systems. The milky way galaxy the major arms consist of the highest densities of both young and old stars. In galaxies the solar systems are separated by vast sections of mostly empty space.

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. 14 15 the nearest exoplanets are located 4 2 light years 1 3 parsecs from earth and orbit proxima centauri the closest star to the sun. Many people are not clear about the difference between our solar system our milky way galaxy and the universe. The artist s concept also includes a new spiral arm called the far 3 kiloparsec arm discovered via a radio telescope survey of gas in the milky way.

The first two are easy to grasp but. The milky way galaxy is a very very big place. The galaxy that contains the earth and its solar system is called the milky way. We live on a planet called earth that is part of our solar system.

It s a small part of the milky way galaxy. A galaxy is held together by gravity. The average diameter of the orbit of the solar system relative to the galactic center. Fact that earth based observations were complicated by the fact that the earth is embedded in the solar system.

Our galaxy the milky way also has a supermassive black hole in the middle. The product of some 4 6 billion years of cosmic construction our planet is. One orbital period of the solar system lasts between 225 and 250 million years. Within it there are at least 100 billion stars and on average each star has at least one planet orbiting it.

The sun s orbital radius is roughly 8 600 parsecs or slightly over half way to the galactic edge.