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Is our Solar System moving independently through our galaxy?
I would like know if our Solar System is moving independently through our galaxy or is stuck on the Orion Arm which is revolving around our galaxy? Is our solar system an onboard passenger of the ...
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How do galaxies move in space?
Kind of like a shower thought just occurred to me. We've all seen lots of animation about spiral galaxies, how they crash... in virtually all of them, I recall they move in a frisbee way, that is ...
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Which star / galaxy is moving away from us the fastest?
I know that we have measured the rate a lot of stars and galaxies move away from us using the doppler shift, and I know that the further a star / galaxy is the faster they accelerate away from us due ...
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How the Galactic objects are moving? [duplicate]
We know that the Galaxies are moving very fast, not only the Galaxies other known and unknown objects in the universe, are moving. But when it was started where is the starting point, and how it move ...
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How are galaxies moving so much and why are they moving? [closed]
I don't understand and I haven't understood for a while.
How is it that all the galaxies in the universe are moving, how they are moving and how fast?
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How fast do we travel through space?
Could someone give the rough estimates of speeds of our travel through space?
I can easily find the two nearby ones:
Earth's own rotation - depending on latitude, up to 40,075 km/24h = 463 m/s
Earth'...
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