• Question: How is the solar system held in place? and will it ever move?

    Asked by agatha window to Angela, Claire, Ian, Robert, Sarah on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Ian Cade

      Ian Cade answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      It isn’t held in place at all! It is in fact moving all the time relative to its neighbours and the rest of our galaxy, which itself is moving relative to its neighbours too.

      After a brief web search it looks like the solar system is circulating around the centre of the galaxy at about 200km per second… hardly ‘held in place’ I would say.

    • Photo: Angela Stokes

      Angela Stokes answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      Hi agatha
      Yes Ian is right, we are continually moving so will it ever move, yes but we will stay in the same position relative to our neighbouring planets as we are now…….unless something happens that we know nothing about yet.

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