• Question: why is there no gravity in space?

    Asked by bump43egg to Daoud, Jess, Jenny, Jason, Janis, Caitríona on 12 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by bump43pen.
    • Photo: Janis Aleksans

      Janis Aleksans answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      There actually is gravity there! Gravity is in fact everywhere! It is Sun’s gravity that keeps Earth and other planets spinning around it! And Sun is spinning around a black hole in the middle of our galaxy (Milky Way) due to black hole’s gravity. The same way Moon’s gravity causes tides on Earth!
      Every two objects are attracted towards each other. It is a function of mass (weight) and a distance. Because Earth is very very big compared to us and we are literally standing on it, we mostly feel only its gravity as it overprints any other gravitational effects that are around it.

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