Saturday 5 August 2017

spacetime - What coordinate system is used to describe planets positions in the universe?



How are planets positions described in the space and in respect to what?


For example is Sun the reference point and right now at this moment, the Earth has coordinates X, Y and Z?


Edit1: I found out that the universe has no center point. Any chose point in the universe can be a center point.




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