If all the planets in the solar system revolve around the sun,whats above and below us?
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So far, the answers have addressed a variety of ways of looking at "above and below" the solar system. A few have only looked at things from the earth's perspective, which does not seem to be what you're looking for. Someone mentioned the galactic plane, which is a better answer. However, you specifically mention the planets revolving around the Sun, which leads me to believe you are specifically interested in what lies above and below the plane of the those orbits.
The plane in which most of the planets (Pluto being the exception) orbit is called the ecliptic plane. Earth's axis is tilted relative to this plane by 23.5 degrees, so "above and below" doesn't quite coincide with above and below the Earth's poles. If you look at the points north and south of the ecliptic plane, they lie in the constellations Draco and Dorado, respectively. Neither of these constellations lie in the galactic plane. In Draco, there are a few bright stars, and a number of galaxies are visible in a good size telescope. In Dorado, which is only visible from the southern hemisphere, one finds the Large Magellanic Cloud. This a galaxy separate from our own Milky Way; it is a companion to our galaxy, 180,000 light years distant.
The galactic plane intersects the ecliptic plane in Gemini and Sagittarius. Aside from these areas of the sky, the bulk of the galaxy is above and below the solar system. The center of the galaxy, though, lies in Sagittarius. Thus, the thickest part is, by coincidence, in the same plane as the solar system, though much more distant.
Locally, there are comets that have orbits that are steeply inclined to the ecliptic plane, so there are nearby objects that spend most of their time above and below the solar system. There are some asteroids that fit this description as well. Even the newly discovered object 2003UB313, which is bigger than Pluto, has an orbit that is inclined 44 degrees to the ecliptic plane. It is part of this solar system, for certain, but it spends most of its time outside of the plane of the other planets' orbits.
Ours is a one of the many solar systems existing, our solar system is called the milky way.
There are a lot of solar systems other than ours.think biggg
There is no above and below in space. These are concepts on earth based on gravity. But given any point of reference in space and looking radially away, you will find other galaxies and cosmological objects.
particle-filled space.
nothing is ever fixed,
there is always something diffrent from day to day above and below us
That changes all the time with the rotation of the world.
sometime the moon is below us and the sun is above,and sometimes its the other way around
we can usually tell when the moon is above us because it is dark
when you can see everything the sun is above.
By the way are you from this galexy.
whats it like where you are from
BELOW means in the direction of planet's gravity, locally seen.
In space it has no meaning.
The solar system lies in the plane of the galaxy that we call the milky way. We are roughly 8Kpc (24 million billion kilometres) from the galactic centre, revolving around a supermassive black hole. The space in the galaxy is mostly filled with hydrogen and cosmic dust at a density of around 1 atom per cubic metre.
What lies above and below us is this space dust, and every now and then, stars and planets - other solar systems.
There are millions of stars in our galaxy, each may or may not have planets revolving around them. So far we've found about 200 planets - some are simply too small to see with even the most advanced telescopes.
so, in answer to your question - there's a hold load of stuff above and below us.
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