Keplerian orrery · J2000 elements

Solar Drift

The solar system at true scale, anchored to a Sun that never stands still: it races at 230 km/s around the centre of the Milky Way.

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The Sun's galactic motion

speed
230 km/s
orbit radius
26,700 ly
period
225 Myr
apex
Cygnus, l 90°
ecliptic
60.2° to the plane

Since the simulation started the Sun has travelled
0 AU — 0 light years.

Live ephemerides

Planetr (AU)v (km/s)ei

Controls

60 days/s
×0.06 — 2.9 AU/yr
130° of orbit

Drag to change viewpoint · scroll to zoom · space pause

Scale. Distances and orbit shapes are real (JPL orbital elements, Kepler's equation solved at every step). Bodies are enlarged to be visible: ≈20× the Sun, ≈290× the Earth. The galactic drift, 48.5 AU per Earth year, is scaled down by the slider: at ×1 the Earth would leave a trail 16 AU long.