Dr O’Donoghue shared some fascinating animations based on data from NASA JPL Horizons system in a Twitter thread to depict just how the planets and event the Sun orbit the barycentre of our ...

In our solar system, that point rarely lines up with the center of the sun. To demonstrate this, O'Donoghue created the animation below, which shows how the sun, Saturn, and Jupiter play tug-of ...

though since Earth moves around the sun at about 66,600 mph.) To illustrate what's going on during an equinox, planetary scientist James O'Donoghue created an animation (below) last year.

In reality, the planets—and even the Sun itself—are orbiting a point known as the center of mass of the solar system. A scientist has created an animation to show how the planets and even the ...