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==Astronomy==
==Astronomy==


===The sun set into the murky water===
===Context explaining 'errors' ===
{{Main|Dhul-Qarnayn and the Sun Controversy in the Qur'an}}
 
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.
 


The Qur'an propagates the idea that the sun is smaller than the earth and assumes the sun goes to a black muddy pool.


{{Quote|{{Quran|18|86}}|
Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: "O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness."}}


=== Geocentricism===
=== Geocentricism===

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