Watch the Sun's 220-million-year orbit in the Milky Way's warped disk

[justaguyreal]

Amazing seeing that, and the idea of such lengthy evolutions. Been around it about ±7x so far...

[hamsaua]

(21:33) كُلٌّ فِى فَلَكٍ يَسْبَحُونَ

(each in an orbit floating.) means, revolving. Ibn `Abbas said, "They revolve like a spinning wheel, in a circle."

-ibn kathir (c.1300 -1373)

[zeza]

You see that trail of marijuana smoke? Ya, that's me.

[tomwaits]

Sun is 4, 6 billion worlds years old. Sun orbit is 220 million worlds years old.
4, 6/ 0, 22 = 20, 9 suns years old.
Sun is 20, 9 years old.

[DREQON]

This kind of stuff just amazes me like the sun is going around the Milky Way at speeds that you can’t even fathom like I always think of the TV show the flash and how fast they have him going or whatever that’s what I’m seeing in my head is how fast the sun is moving because it’s moving at 500, 000 and something thousand miles per hour but yet it takes 200 and something million years the size of the Milky Way galaxy and all the stuff is like something you can’t even think about or fathom is so crazy to me. Science is so awesome.

[gomerpile]

We need a third person view of the solar system during all this . that would b pretty interesting

[EPluribusUnum-xlmt]

If we can escape the suns pull and go completely the opposite. That means we can have an object technically traveling at 600 million light years through Galactic matter. Meaning; we could be finding our next home behind us, rather than next to us, or in front of us :)

[fabiosunspot]

The entire universe is like a huge ocean with calm and very rough sections like waves on the high seas, they're also massive galactic storms that causes gas clouds to collapse and heat up creating stars and forming new Galaxy's every day, there's a formula to the universe if we understand it we figure out everything

[sunii]

wow! Epic! Thank you for sharing. Peace & Blessings.

[DeathValleyDazed]

Fantastic, I could feel the centrifugal force pulling me towards the Twilight Zone! 💫

[raoulduke]

flat earthers be like: BuT wHy Do We NoT fEeL tHe RoTaTiOn?

[iqbal_pradana]

so modern humans have been travel around the milky way over 1/1100 times, no wonder we never notice the change of constellation shape since first human see it

[DREQON]

I hope when I die I can explore the galaxies I wanna see this stuff up close that would be an awesome afterlife

[B]

What is our sun orbiting though? It's going around the galaxy but it's also orbiting something we can not observe

[curiouslyt]

That’s amazing. And if I were in another universe looking at this on my telescope and could see earth, depending of how many light years away I I’m I might see in my telescope the earth just forming or prehistoric dinosaurs roaming the earth. The closer I am in light years the later in earths time I would see I’m guessing.

[BLKBRDSR]

So the sun has been around the galaxy about 20 times in it's life. That means the sun is only 20 years old.
That is, in terms of a galactic year. 1 GY = 1 orbit around the galaxy. I just made that up.
Also I can see my math is wrong. But that's why I'm human.

[reareo]

collecting data, testing data. I like ESA

[lastaviusdarby]

Planets have to clear their orbits in order to be considered planets. This is partly the reason why Pluto was downgraded from planetary status. It has not successfully cleared its orbit. What if the Sun has not 'cleared' its galactic orbit? What if this explains some of the high meteors thought to have impacted the earth?

[bkhnykl]

so is it 220 million or 600-700 million

[Dana-cvku]

“It is He who created night and day, the Sun and the Moon, each floating in its orbit.” (Quran 21:33) How did an illiterate person know that the sun and the moon have orbits 1400 years ago!