While the Sun is the centre of our solar system, it only makes up about 99.8 per cent of the mass of the entire solar system. So, the Sun's centre is not exactly located on the barycentre of the ...

The sun accounts for 99.8% of the mass of the entire Solar System. Long haul flights to ... the countdown on New Year’s Eve. This is an illustration of Tythe, a hypothetical planet three times ...

But that's not the whole story. "Instead, everything orbits the solar system center of mass," James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japanese space agency, JAXA, recently explained on Twitter.