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==Astronomy== | ==Astronomy== | ||
===The sun | ===Context explaining 'errors' === | ||
The sun is one of hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The galaxy is | |||
composed of gaseous interstellar medium, neutral or ionized, sometimes concentrated into | |||
dense gas clouds made up of atoms molecules, and dust. All of the matter -- gas, dust, and | |||
stars -- rotate around a central axis perpendicular to the galactic plane. The centrifugal force | |||
caused by the rotation balances out the gravitational force, which draw all the matter toward the centre. | |||
All stars in the galaxy rotate around a galactic centre but not with the same period. Stars at the | |||
centre have a shorter period than those farther out. The Sun is located in the outer partof the galaxy. The | |||
speed of the solar system due to the galactic rotation is about 220 km/s. he disk of stars in the Milky | |||
Way is about 100,000 light years across and the sun is located | |||
about 30,000 light years from the galaxy's center. Based on a distance of 30,000 light years | |||
and a speed of 220 km/s, the Sun's orbit around the centre of the Milky Way once every 225 | |||
million years. The period of time is called a cosmic year. The Sun has orbited the galaxy, | |||
more than 20 times during its 5 billion year lifetime. The motions of the period are | |||
studied by measuring the positions of lines in the galaxy spectra. | |||
When the Quran talks about the earth being 'fixed' it is perhaps referring to the nature of gravity and humans being fixed to the eath as opposed to floating around. | |||
=== Geocentricism=== | === Geocentricism=== | ||