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What bodies in the wider universe are moving?

Answer 1

ALL of them! There are no "static" bodies in the universe.

Everything in the universe is moving relative to something else, from the largest galaxies to the subatomic particles that make up matter. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is based on the idea that YOU can choose ANY point as your "stationary" reference point.

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Answer 2

Layla Anderson

It's ALL moving!

...because the universe is growing.

Furthermore, every galaxy revolves around itself, and each star within it moves in relation to every other star.

Einstein put it this way: "There is no preferred inertial frame of reference." All bodies in the universe are in motion with respect to all other bodies. No body can be said to be at rest, and no frame of reference can be said to represent absolute motionlessness.

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Answer 3

Levi Alexander

Cosmological bodies in motion include stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, galaxies, and galaxy clusters.

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