Why is the sun in the solar system?
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Actually it's called a solar system because the planets, asteroids and such orbit the sun (a star, hence any star with similar items orbiting is a solar system).
A better question is, "why is there a solar system around the sun?"
There are lots of stars (of which the sun is one) in the universe, but not all of them have solar systems.
Stars happen when a very, very, very large cloud of gas (hydrogen, usually) collapses into itself because of its gravitational attraction. It gets really tightly squeezed together (gravity is rather strong at the center of a star) until nuclear fusion starts - that's what makes a star shine.
Sometimes, there's junk left over from the gas cloud that didn't fall into the star, but kept flying around it in orbit. Often times, even more junk will get caught by the star's gravity as it moves through space. All this stuff keeps orbiting the star, and some of it condenses (again, because of gravity) into much bigger chunks of stuff, thus forming planets and asteroids and the like.
That's the quick and dirty version of how the solar system came around. Here's a website that goes into more detail:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/formation_o...
it had to go somewhere. duh
to heat. light... LIFE
There wouldn't be a solar system without it. The sun defines the solar system. Look right in the phrase: *solar* system. The sun is in the solar system because without it, there would be no sol, nor any system.
Because it is a part of the Solar System....the major part. It's the star we orbit.
Sun is a massive body that attracts to it smaller bodies, the planets. This is the solar system: huge sun in an orbit with the planets as satellites rotating about the sun and the whole system is moving also in sun's orbit. All this is held together by force of attraction,
Hmm...frankly speaking the sun is in the centre of our solar system which is like a bright burning ball of fire. Without it, there would be no life on our planet. Plants need energy from the sun which gives oxygen for living beings to breathe. You may realize that other planets that is further away from the sun is unable to support much life...or at least thats what our scientist say that no life is yet detected on other planets.
By the way, if you look at the sky at night you will see lots of stars right? Our Sun is also a star.(Its named G2 star). Which means there could be other stars in the universe which we have not explore yet.
Because it`s a SOLAR system
1. the word solar means sun. solar system means sun's system.
2. the sun's gravity holds the planets in their orbits. without the sun the planets would bump into each other
All the answers you have gotten so far are correct in there own way.
give the sun a few billion more years and it wil eiher be burned out of fuel or turn supernova and burn up mostif not al the planets surrending it at present or it could turn into a neturon star.either way you would no longer be here to ask this question.
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