r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 13h ago

Video Earth’s evolution measured in galactic years.

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u/Truestorydreams 12h ago

So that means the sun is orbiting around the centre of the milky way?

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u/wiltony 12h ago

Yep

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u/Sweet-Explorer-7619 12h ago

Soo, what does the milky way orbit?

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u/hereforyebeer 12h ago

Sagittarius A- a supermassive black hole about 4 million times greater than the mass of our sun.

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies have some gravitational relationship with each other and are actually on a collision course towards one another!

We’re also a part of the Virgo Supercluster, so we got that going for us.