Jan 22, 2020
8 min read
Our Wobbly Solar System
The Sun-centered solar system, elliptical orbits, and other oversimplifications they taught you in school
Most of us learned in school to picture the Solar System a certain way. The Sun sits motionless at the center of the Solar System, and the planets move in elliptical orbits around the Sun. This is a pretty good picture. It’s simple and mostly…
