Does the sun physically move in the solar system?

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No, the sun doesn't move in respect to the solar system, because it is the center of it, however, it moves in the milky way. The sun orbits around the center of the milky way at about 200-300km/s.

if you want to know more, look it up, there are lots of info about celestial bodies on the net.
 
The Sun is in a wing of the galaxy, and the galaxy rotates and each galaxy moves away from each other. So yes the sun DOES move. We just follow it in exact place.
 
No, the sun doesn't move in respect to the solar system, because it is the center of it, however, it moves in the milky way. The sun orbits around the center of the milky way at about 200-300km/s.

if you want to know more, look it up, there are lots of info about celestial bodies on the net.
 
The sun DOES move slightly while the planets orbit it. When the planets orbit, the gravitational forces on the planet will pull the sun towards it slightly, and make it move in a small circle. It also orbits around the center of the galaxy every 250 million years or so. The milky way galaxy is ALSO moving towards the andromeda galaxy, and the entire Local Group galaxy cluster (thats us) is moving towards other galaxy clusters, and and the virgo supercluster (also us) is moving towards a mysterious spot in space called the "great attraction". So yes, basically, the sun moves... a LOT.
 
The Sun is in a wing of the galaxy, and the galaxy rotates and each galaxy moves away from each other. So yes the sun DOES move. We just follow it in exact place.
 
I know this question may sound kind of silly, but I am required to write a bit about the movements of celestial bodies, and this came up.
Oh yes, everything moves because our universe is slowly rotating... okay what I meant was if it was similar to the movement planets have (as they orbit) and comets and the like and if you could actually tell. But I see now that it moves with us because the whole universe is moving! Thank you.
 
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