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 ==Astronomy==
-===The sun set into the murky water===
+===Context explaining 'errors' ===
-{{Main|Dhul-Qarnayn and the Sun Controversy in the Qur'an}}
+The sun is one of hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The galaxy is
+composed of gaseous interstellar medium, neutral or ionized, sometimes concentrated into
+dense gas clouds made up of atoms molecules, and dust. All of the matter -- gas, dust, and
+stars -- rotate around a central axis perpendicular to the galactic plane. The centrifugal force
+caused by the rotation balances out the gravitational force, which draw all the matter toward the centre.
+All stars in the galaxy rotate around a galactic centre but not with the same period. Stars at the
+centre have a shorter period than those farther out. The Sun is located in the outer partof the galaxy. The
+speed of the solar system due to the galactic rotation is about 220 km/s. he disk of stars in the Milky
+Way is about 100,000 light years across and the sun is located
+about 30,000 light years from the galaxy's center. Based on a distance of 30,000 light years
+and a speed of 220 km/s, the Sun's orbit around the centre of the Milky Way once every 225
+million years. The period of time is called a cosmic year. The Sun has orbited the galaxy,
+more than 20 times during its 5 billion year lifetime. The motions of the period are
+studied by measuring the positions of lines in the galaxy spectra.
+When the Quran talks about the earth being 'fixed' it is perhaps referring to the nature of gravity and humans being fixed to the eath as opposed to floating around.
-The Qur'an propagates the idea that the sun is smaller than the earth and assumes the sun goes to a black muddy pool.
-{{Quote|{{Quran|18|86}}|
-Until, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it set in a spring of murky water: Near it he found a People: We said: "O Zul-qarnain! (thou hast authority,) either to punish them, or to treat them with kindness."}}
 === Geocentricism===