PRESENTATION OUTLINE
THE SUN'S MOVEMENT THROUGH THE UNIVERSE
The Earth travels around the sun at 66,666 mph. The Sun (our solar system) rotates around the center of the Milky Way at beween 420,000 and 540,000 mph. Finally, it is believed that the Milky Way is traveling or moving around a "local group" of galaxies at 2,237,000 mph.
The Sun is moving towards Lambda Herculis at 72,000 kilometers per hour or 45,000 miles per hour.
Some people believe our solar system is a vortex and that the sun moves like a comet through the universe, dragging the planets along due to its strong gravitational pull.
Our Sun and the Earth are moving at about 43,000 miles per hour (70,000 km/hr) roughly in the direction of the bright star Vega in the constellation of Lyra.
It takes our Sun approximately 225 million years to make one trip around our Galaxy.
The time it takes for our solar system to travel around the Milky Way is called a "galactic year".
Since the Sun and the Earth first formed, about 20 galactic years have passed, although in all of recorded human history, we have barely moved in our long path around the Milky Way.
The average velocity of the solar system is 828,000 km/hr.
The Sun is located about 28,000 light-years from the Galactic Center of the Milky Way.
