Questions tagged [movement]
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How often do stars pass within 1 light year of the Sun?
Interstellar exchange of massive objects is difficult across several light years. But as the stars orbit the galaxy the distances between them change. I don't find data for neighbor star distances ...
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Inverse of the sunrise equation - finding locations with a given sunrise time on a given day
I'm working on a project for fun where I represent some sleep data geographically. For a given day, I have a date, a time for falling asleep that night, and a time for waking up the next day. The idea ...
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Does the sun cross other spiral arms in its movement around the galaxy's center?
Today, Ansa.it released an article that states:
[...]. In questo suo peregrinare galattico, il Sole ha attraversato anche
i due bracci della Via Lattea Perseo e Centauro. "Sono zone di alta
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Why can't we determine the center of the universe [duplicate]
I find this baffling. If we can observe objects moving away from us and each other, than it stands to reason that we can track their paths (relative to each other and ourselves) backward to find a ...
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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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Does the Sun move? [duplicate]
I'm curious; does the Sun actually move? The concept behind the question is that if you wear a shirt and you move, does the shirt actually move? The Solar System orbits around the Milky Way, but does ...
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Are there good animations of the movement of proximate stars over long time periods?
After reading about Barnard's Star and how it's approaching us 140 km/sec, I'm curious if there are any visualizations of how the nearest stars to Sol will be moving over the next 100k years or so.
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Motion of rogue planets
Two Questions:
1) Are rogue planets in motion, i.e. are they just wandering freely in space or stationary?
1) Do rogue planets have defined path or a one which can be anticipated? I understand that ...
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