Why is the Sun the Center of the Solar System? page all

KOMPAS.com – The sun is a 4.5 billion year old star, a very hot ball of hydrogen and helium in center of solar system.

The sun is about 150 million kilometers from Earth. Without its energy, life as it does today might not exist on Earth.

The sun is the largest object in solar system with a volume that would require 1.3 million Earths to fill.

Reported from NASA, The Sun’s gravity holds the solar system together, keeping everything from the largest planet to the smallest debris in orbit around it.

The hottest part of the Sun is its core which has a temperature of 15 million degrees Celsius.

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The activity of the Sun, from its powerful eruptions to the streams of charged particles it sends out, affects the nature of space throughout the solar system.

NASA and other international space agencies continue to monitor the Sun with a fleet of spacecraft to study everything from its atmosphere to its surface, and even peer into the Sun.

The sun is the only star in the solar system. The sun is the center of the solar system because its gravity is able to unite the solar system.

Everything in the solar system revolves around the Sun, from planets, asteroids, comets, and small debris in space.

Following the theory of heliocentrism, it is known that the Earth and other planets in the solar system orbit around the Sun.

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Reported from Space.com, Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model in his work published in 1543, according to the NASA Earth Observatory.

The theory that the Sun is the center is correct, but the model as a whole is considered to have many inaccuracies.

Since the heliocentric model was originally conceived without a telescope, all observations had to be made with the naked eye and simple instruments.

Planetary positions are predicted largely by observing their position and size with respect to the star.

Copernicus’ heliocentric model was the first widely accepted idea that the sun was the center of the solar system, not the Earth.

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However, Copernicus was not the first to suggest this. A thousand years earlier, the 5th-century Greek philosophers Philolaus and Hicetas suggested that the Earth could orbit a fiery object.

Two centuries later, the Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos said that this object was the Sun.

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