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Bookmark or Share- Does the Sun move around the Milky Way? - NASAStarChild Question of the Month for February 2000 Question: Does the Sun move around the Milky Way? Answer: Yes, the Sun - in fact, our whole solar system - orbits around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
- Just How Big is this Place? - NASAThis activity can be used in conjunction with the StarChild Universe Level 2 information. OBJECTIVES: Examine ways of measuring distance
- What is a light-year and how is it used?? - NASAStarChild Question of the Month for March 2000 Question: What is a light-year. and how is it used?. Answer: A light-year is a unit of distance.
- StarChild: Galaxies - NASAGalaxies: A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. It is 9.5 trillion (9,500,000,000,000) kilometers.
- StarChild: The Milky Way - NASAOur Sun is a star in the Milky Way Galaxy. If you were looking down on the Milky Way, it would look like a large pinwheel rotating in space.
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