Sun revolves around what?

does the Sun revolve around anything? (please don't say the Earth!) i know it's going around the center of the Milky Way with all the other stars in the spiral arms, but is our solar system going around anything on a smaller scale?

 

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Not that I am aware of. There are no large masses nearby with sufficient gravity to cause our solar system to orbit said mass. The nearest star is over 4 lightyears away, and its gravity is not nearly strong enough capture our sun or solar system in an orbit. There are other stars with small gravitational attractions pulling us in different directions, so they kind of cancel out. On a larger scale, our Milky Way and many other galaxies are being drawn toward a huge mass named 'The Great Attractor'. I'm not sure if orbital motion is involved is this collapse, or if it is 'straight line' motion more or less. I think straight line motion is all that has been detected.

 

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I can't claim complete knowledge on the subject, but I have not seen any information on solar relvolution other than around the center of the milky way.

 

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It revolves around the Solar System center of mass (which curiously, lies inside the same Sun)

 

As Alice might have said, "this is getting interestinger and interestinger.".

Lucas is exactly right, of course, but in addition, the sun is also revolving, or, rotating, I'm not sure of which word I properly want to use, around the center of mass of the entire universe.

So, even though the gravitational effect of the entire universe is miniscule, it is there, and it will be interesting to see what rigorous mathematical solution would reveal.

 

Where is the center of mass of the entire universe? Personally. I am a little skeptical - I don't think there is such a thing.

 

The sun revolves around me. Just ask anyone

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Would any mass remain at the middle, where the big bang occurred?

 

There is no middle. Not really. At least, there's no place where the big bang "happened".

The big ban didn't happen in space.
It happenned to space.

You know. The analogy of the expanding balloon with the surface of the balloon being space. The center of the balloon isn't empty space. It isn't space at all.


Oh. And by the way. Blobrana and some others would probably be able to give the exact names as I can't quite recall, but the Milky Way is closing in on several other galaxies(?), star clusters(?), interstellar clouds(?). I forget the details. I'm pretty sure it's called the local group though. Or maybe it's just part of the local group.

Is one of them the something Magellanic Cloud? And Andromeda Galaxy?

Anyway.
The point is that I bet they're sort of orbiting together. In a way. Something like a spiral if seen from far enough away and over long enough time spans.

Just a guess of course.

The idea of the universe as a firework with the various embers swirling about each other in ballet-like movements is... quite awe-inspiring.

Such amazing things are taking place in such a brief and fiery instant, yes?

 

Do we know what exactly this "Great Attractor" that the milky way revolves around is? And how do we get pictures of the milky way? Have we sent a probe out far enough to take pictures, or are they just renderings based on our knowledge of where stars and systems are?

 

The farthest out man-made object, Voyager 1, is approximately 13 light hours from Earth. The Milky Way is approximately 100,000 light years in diameter. Hence, renderings.

 

the sun along with the rest of the solar system drift around the milky towards the center of the galaxy where a super massive black hole rests!!

 

http://www.tenthdimension.com/flash2.php
That link may help one understand.

 

And then it will take 100,000 years for the transmissions from said probes to reach us.