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Show j Solar System's Movement The solar system is traveling at the rate of about 1.(100.000 miles a day in the general direction of the constellation constella-tion Hercules, or. more exactly, the boundary between Hercules and Lyra. The stars In these constellations are not all nt the same distance from the solar system, and no fixed point can be set nt which the sun will arrive at a specitied time. Observations have not been continued over a long enough jiei'iod to determine whether the suti Is moving through space In a straight Une or along a curved line. |