"Instead, everything orbits the solar system ... animation below, which shows how the sun, Saturn, and Jupiter play tug-of-war around the barycenter, pulling our star in looping mini-orbits. In ...

It may not be obvious in images of the hula-hoop ... This is the same for planets." In his free time, O'Donoghue makes animations about physics and the solar system. Some of his others have ...

In the above animation, the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn are shown orbiting the barycentre of our solar system. The barycentre is the centre of mass of two or more orbiting bodies and is the point in ...