Jan Oort

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Chronicled events

1. 1927·​The Sun Moves Too
   #5816

   The planets go around the Sun, as Kepler said, but the Sun isn’t at rest either. Carrying them along, it circles the far-off center of the Milky Way, as the stars around us do, those nearer the center faster.