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Science 101: The Solar System

How many planets are in the solar system? How did it form in the Milky Way galaxy? Learn facts about the solar system's genesis, plus its planets, moons, and asteroids.

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- [Narrator] Our solar system is one of over 500 known solar systems in the entire Milky Way galaxy. The solar system came into being about 4.5 billion years ago when a cloud of interstellar gas and dust collapsed, resulting in a solar nebula, a swirling disc of material that collided to form the solar system.

The solar system is located in the Milky Way's Orion star cluster. Only 15% of stars in the galaxy host planetary systems, and one of those stars is our own sun.

Revolving around the sun are eight planets. The planets are divided into two categories based on their composition, terrestrial and Jovian. Terrestrial planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are primarily made of rocky material. Their surfaces are solid. They don't have ring systems. They have very few or no moons, and they are relatively small.

The smallest and closest to the sun is Mercury, which has the shortest orbit in the solar system at about three Earth months. Venus is the hottest planet with temperatures of up to 867 degrees Fahrenheit, due to an atmosphere of carbon dioxide and extensive lava flows. Next to this world of fire is a world of water, Earth. The water systems on this planet help create the only known environment in the universe capable of sustaining life. The last of the terrestrial planets, Mars, might have also supported life about 3.7 billion years ago when the planet had a watery surface and moist atmosphere.

Beyond the four terrestrial planets of the inner solar system lie the Jovian planets of the outer solar system. The Jovian planets include gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, and ice giants, Uranus and Neptune. The gas giants are predominantly made of helium and hydrogen, and the ice giants also contain rock, ice and a liquid mixture of water, methane, and ammonia. All four Jovian planets have multiple moons, sport ring systems, have no solid surface and are immense.

The largest Jovian is also the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. Nearby is Saturn, the solar system's second largest planet. Its signature rings are wide enough to fit between Earth and the moon, but are barely a kilometer thick. Past Saturn are the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune. The slightly bigger of these ice giants, Uranus, is famous for rotating on its side. Next to Uranus is Neptune, the outermost planet in the solar system, and also one of the coldest.

Orbiting the terrestrial planets is the asteroid belt, a flat disc of rocky objects full of remnants from the solar system's formation from microscopic dust particles to the largest known object, the dwarf planet Ceres.

Another disc of space debris lies much further out and orbits the Jovian planets, the icy Kuiper belt. Apart from asteroids, the Kuiper belt is also home to dwarf planets such as Pluto and is the birthplace of many comets. Beyond the Kuiper belt is the Oort Cloud, a vast spherical collection of icy debris. It is considered the edge of the solar system since that is where the gravitational and physical influences of the sun end. Our solar system's particular configuration of planets and other celestial objects all revolving around a life-giving star make it a special place to call home.

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- [Narrator] Nuestro sistema solar es uno de más de 500 sistemas solares conocidos en toda la galaxia de la Vía Láctea. El sistema solar se formó hace unos 4.5 mil millones de años cuando una nube de gas y polvo interestelar colapsó, resultando en una nebulosa solar, un disco giratorio de material que colisionó para formar el sistema solar. Vía Láctea.

El sistema solar está ubicado en el cúmulo de estrellas de Orión de la Vía Láctea. Solo el 15% de las estrellas en la galaxia albergan sistemas planetarios, y una de esas estrellas es nuestro propio sol.

Alrededor del sol giran ocho planetas. Los planetas se dividen en dos categorías basadas en su composición, terrestres y jovianos. Los planetas terrestres, incluyendo Mercurio, Venus, Tierra, y Marte, están compuestos principalmente de material rocoso. Sus superficies son sólidas. No tienen sistemas de anillos. Tienen muy pocas o ninguna luna, y son relativamente pequeños.

El más pequeño y cercano al sol es Mercurio, que tiene la órbita más corta en el sistema solar de aproximadamente tres meses terrestres. Venus es el planeta más caliente con temperaturas de hasta 867 grados Fahrenheit, debido a una atmósfera de dióxido de carbono y extensos flujos de lava. Junto a este mundo de fuego se encuentra un mundo de agua, la Tierra. Los sistemas de agua en este planeta ayudan a crear el único ambiente conocido en el universo capaz de sostener vida. El último de los planetas terrestres, Marte, también podría haber sostenido vida hace unos 3.7 mil millones de años cuando el planeta tenía una superficie acuática y una atmósfera húmeda.

Más allá de los cuatro planetas terrestres del sistema solar interno se encuentran los planetas jovianos del sistema solar externo. Los planetas jovianos incluyen gigantes gaseosos, Júpiter y Saturno, y gigantes de hielo, Urano y Neptuno. Los gigantes gaseosos están predominantemente compuestos de helio e hidrógeno, y los gigantes de hielo también contienen roca, hielo y una mezcla líquida de agua, metano y amoníaco. Los cuatro planetas jovianos tienen múltiples lunas, poseen sistemas de anillos, no tienen superficie sólida y son inmensos.

El joviano más grande es también el planeta más grande en el sistema solar, Júpiter. Cerca está Saturno, el segundo planeta más grande del sistema solar. Sus anillos característicos son lo suficientemente anchos para caber entre la Tierra y la luna, pero apenas tienen un kilómetro de espesor. Más allá de Saturno están los gigantes de hielo, Urano y Neptuno. El ligeramente más grande de estos gigantes de hielo, Urano, es famoso por rotar sobre su costado. Después de Urano está Neptuno, el planeta más alejado en el sistema solar, y también uno de los más fríos.

Orbitando los planetas terrestres está el cinturón de asteroides, un disco plano de objetos rocosos lleno de restos de la formación del sistema solar desde partículas de polvo microscópicas hasta el objeto más grande conocido, el planeta enano Ceres.

Otro disco de escombros espaciales se encuentra mucho más lejos y orbita los planetas jovianos, el helado cinturón de Kuiper. Aparte de los asteroides, el cinturón de Kuiper también es hogar de planetas enanos como Plutón y es el lugar de nacimiento de muchos cometas. Más allá del cinturón de Kuiper se encuentra la Nube de Oort, una vasta colección esférica de escombros helados. Se considera el borde del sistema solar ya que ahí es donde terminan las influencias gravitacionales y físicas del sol.

La particular configuración de planetas de nuestro sistema solar y otros objetos celestes todos girando alrededor de una estrella dadora de vida lo convierten en un lugar especial para llamar hogar.

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What is the solar system?

The solar system comprises 8 planets , approximately 170 natural planetary satellites (moons), and countless asteroids , meteorites , and comets .

There are eight planets in the solar system. The four inner terrestrial planets are Mercury , Venus , Earth , and Mars , all of which consist mainly of rock. The four outer planets are Jupiter , Saturn , Neptune , and Uranus , giant planets that consist mainly of either gases or ice. Pluto was considered the ninth planet until 2006, when the International Astronomical Union voted to classify Pluto as a dwarf planet instead.

Where is the solar system?

The solar system is situated within the Orion-Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy . Alpha Centauri , made up of the stars Proxima Centauri, Alpha Centauri A, and Alpha Centauri B, is the closest star system to the solar system.

Scientists have multiple theories that explain how the solar system formed. The favoured theory proposes that the solar system formed from a solar nebula , where the Sun was born out of a concentration of kinetic energy and heat at the centre, while debris rotating the nebula collided to create the planets .

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solar system , assemblage consisting of the Sun —an average star in the Milky Way Galaxy —and those bodies orbiting around it: 8 (formerly 9) planets with more than 210 known planetary satellites (moons); many asteroids , some with their own satellites; comets and other icy bodies; and vast reaches of highly tenuous gas and dust known as the interplanetary medium . The solar system is part of the " observable universe ," the region of space that humans can actually or theoretically observe with the aid of technology. Unlike the observable universe, the universe is possibly infinite .

The Sun, Moon , and brightest planets were visible to the naked eyes of ancient astronomers, and their observations and calculations of the movements of these bodies gave rise to the science of astronomy . Today the amount of information on the motions, properties, and compositions of the planets and smaller bodies has grown to immense proportions, and the range of observational instruments has extended far beyond the solar system to other galaxies and the edge of the known universe. Yet the solar system and its immediate outer boundary still represent the limit of our physical reach, and they remain the core of our theoretical understanding of the cosmos as well. Earth -launched space probes and landers have gathered data on planets, moons, asteroids, and other bodies, and this data has been added to the measurements collected with telescopes and other instruments from below and above Earth’s atmosphere and to the information extracted from meteorites and from Moon rocks returned by astronauts. All this information is scrutinized in attempts to understand in detail the origin and evolution of the solar system—a goal toward which astronomers continue to make great strides.

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Located at the centre of the solar system and influencing the motion of all the other bodies through its gravitational force is the Sun , which in itself contains more than 99 percent of the mass of the system. The planets, in order of their distance outward from the Sun, are Mercury , Venus , Earth , Mars , Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus , and Neptune . Four planets—Jupiter through Neptune—have ring systems, and all but Mercury and Venus have one or more moons. Pluto had been officially listed among the planets since it was discovered in 1930 orbiting beyond Neptune, but in 1992 an icy object was discovered still farther from the Sun than Pluto. Many other such discoveries followed, including an object named Eris that appears to be at least as large as Pluto. It became apparent that Pluto was simply one of the larger members of this new group of objects, collectively known as the Kuiper belt . Accordingly, in August 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the organization charged by the scientific community with classifying astronomical objects, voted to revoke Pluto’s planetary status and place it under a new classification called dwarf planet . For a discussion of that action and of the definition of planet approved by the IAU, see planet .

Understand the relative size of the Sun, the Moon, and other solar system objects

Any natural solar system object other than the Sun, a planet, a dwarf planet, or a moon is called a small body ; these include asteroids , meteoroids , and comets . Most of the more than one million asteroids, or minor planets, orbit between Mars and Jupiter in a nearly flat ring called the asteroid belt. The myriad fragments of asteroids and other small pieces of solid matter (smaller than a few tens of metres across) that populate interplanetary space are often termed meteoroids to distinguish them from the larger asteroidal bodies.

The solar system’s several billion comets are found mainly in two distinct reservoirs. The more-distant one, called the Oort cloud , is a spherical shell surrounding the solar system at a distance of approximately 50,000 astronomical units (AU)—more than 1,000 times the distance of Pluto’s orbit. The other reservoir, the Kuiper belt , is a thick disk-shaped zone whose main concentration extends 30–50 AU from the Sun, beyond the orbit of Neptune but including a portion of the orbit of Pluto. (One astronomical unit is the average distance from Earth to the Sun—about 150 million km [93 million miles].) Just as asteroids can be regarded as rocky debris left over from the formation of the inner planets, Pluto, its moon Charon , Eris, and the myriad other Kuiper belt objects can be seen as surviving representatives of the icy bodies that accreted to form the cores of Neptune and Uranus. As such, Pluto and Charon may also be considered to be very large comet nuclei. The Centaur objects , a population of comet nuclei having diameters as large as 200 km (125 miles), orbit the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune, probably having been gravitationally perturbed inward from the Kuiper belt. The interplanetary medium —an exceedingly tenuous plasma (ionized gas) laced with concentrations of dust particles —extends outward from the Sun to about 123 AU.

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The solar system even contains objects from interstellar space that are just passing through. Two such interstellar objects have been observed. ‘Oumuamua had an unusual cigarlike or pancakelike shape and was possibly composed of nitrogen ice. Comet Borisov was much like the comets of the solar system but with a much higher abundance of carbon monoxide .

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All the planets and dwarf planets, the rocky asteroids, and the icy bodies in the Kuiper belt move around the Sun in elliptical orbits in the same direction that the Sun rotates. This motion is termed prograde, or direct, motion. Looking down on the system from a vantage point above Earth’s North Pole , an observer would find that all these orbital motions are in a counterclockwise direction. In striking contrast, the comet nuclei in the Oort cloud are in orbits having random directions, corresponding to their spherical distribution around the plane of the planets.

The shape of an object’s orbit is defined in terms of its eccentricity . For a perfectly circular orbit, the eccentricity is 0; with increasing elongation of the orbit’s shape, the eccentricity increases toward a value of 1, the eccentricity of a parabola. Of the eight major planets, Venus and Neptune have the most circular orbits around the Sun, with eccentricities of 0.007 and 0.009, respectively. Mercury, the closest planet, has the highest eccentricity, with 0.21; the dwarf planet Pluto, with 0.25, is even more eccentric . Another defining attribute of an object’s orbit around the Sun is its inclination , which is the angle that it makes with the plane of Earth’s orbit—the ecliptic plane. Again, of the planets, Mercury’s has the greatest inclination, its orbit lying at 7° to the ecliptic; Pluto’s orbit, by comparison, is much more steeply inclined, at 17.1°. The orbits of the small bodies generally have both higher eccentricities and higher inclinations than those of the planets. Some comets from the Oort cloud have inclinations greater than 90°; their motion around the Sun is thus opposite that of the Sun’s rotation, or retrograde.

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The solar system is a pretty busy place. It’s got all kinds of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets zipping around our Sun.

But how did this busy stellar neighborhood come to be?

Our story starts about 4.6 billion years ago, with a wispy cloud of stellar dust.

This cloud was part of a bigger cloud called a nebula.

At some point, the cloud collapsed—possibly because the shockwave of a nearby exploding star caused it to compress.

When it collapsed, it fell in on itself, creating a disk of material surrounding it.

Finally the pressure caused by the material was so great that hydrogen atoms began to fuse into helium, releasing a tremendous amount of energy. Our Sun was born!

Even though the Sun gobbled up more than 99% of all the stuff in this disk, there was still some material left over.

Bits of this material clumped together because of gravity. Big objects collided with bigger objects, forming still bigger objects. Finally some of these objects became big enough to be spheres—these spheres became planets and dwarf planets.

Rocky planets, like Earth, formed near the Sun, because icy and gaseous material couldn’t survive close to all that heat.

Gas and icy stuff collected further away, creating the gas and ice giants.

And like that, the solar system as we know it today was formed.

There are still leftover remains of the early days though.

Asteroids in the asteroid belt are the bits and pieces of the early solar system that could never quite form a planet.

Way off in the outer reaches of the solar system are comets. These icy bits haven’t changed much at all since the solar systems formation.

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the solar system

THE SOLAR SYSTEM

Jul 31, 2014

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THE SOLAR SYSTEM. BY A.J. AZIKE. WE LIVE ON A SMALL PLANET IN A SMALL PART OF THE UNIVERSE CALLED THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS DOMINATED BY A SINGLE GREAT STAR- OUR SUN. SOLAR SYSTEM. SCIENTIST BELIEVE THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS ABOUT 5 BILLION YEARS OLD.

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THE SOLAR SYSTEM BY A.J. AZIKE

WE LIVE ON A SMALL PLANET IN A SMALL PART OF THE UNIVERSE CALLED THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS DOMINATED BY A SINGLE GREAT STAR- OUR SUN.

SOLAR SYSTEM • SCIENTIST BELIEVE THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS ABOUT 5 BILLION YEARS OLD. • PERHAPS A NAERBY STAR EXPLODED AND CAUSED A LARGE CLOUD OF DUST AND GAS TO COLLAPSE ON ITSELF. • THE HOT CENTER PORTION BECAME THE SUN. • SMALL PIECES FORMED INTO PLANETS. • THE REMNANTS BECAME COMETS AND ASTROIDS.

THE SUN, OUR SUN

LAYERS OF THE SUN

OUR SUN IS… • THE CENTER OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. • PRIMARY SOURCE FOR OUR HEAT AND LIGHT. • SO FAR AWAY, IT TAKES 8 MINUTES FOR ITS LIGHT TO REACH US. • VERY ACTIVE AND ERUPTS WITH SOLAR FLARES. • THE CENTER OF ALL PLANETARY ORBITS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.

-1ST PLANET, CLOSEST TO THE SUN.-MERCURY HAS EXTREMELY HOT SURFACE TEMPRATURE AND HAS NO AIR OR WATER.-IT HAS MANY CRATERS FROM BEING HIT BY DEBRIS.

VENUS • VENUS IS VISABLE IN THE MORNING AND EVENING SKY. • THE PLANET IS COVERED IN CLOUDS. • TEMPERATURE IS INCREDIBLE HOT DUE TO THE SUN’S HEAT NOT BEING ABLE TO EXCAPE ITS CANOPY OF CLOUDS. • VENUS IS AN EXTREME EXAMPLE OF THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT.

SEGMENT OF VENUS

THE EARTH, HOME SWEET HOME.

EARTH • WE LIVE ON A SMALL PLANET, THE ONLY PLACE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM WHERE LIFE SEEMS TO FLOURISH. • LIFE ON EARTH IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE EARTH IS THE RIGHT DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SUN FOR WATER TO EXIST AS LIQUUID. • THE ATMOSPHERE CONTAINS SO MUCH OXYGEN, IT IS KEY IN SUSTAINING LIFE.

LAYERS OF THE EARTH

THE EARTH HAS A FRIEND…

THE MOON • VERY UNEVEN SURFACE WITH MANY CRATERS. • ASTRONAUT NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON IN 1969. • THE MOON ORBITS THE EARTH. • TIDES ARE CAUSED BY THE PULL OF THE MOONS GRAVITY. • GALILEO STUDIED THE MOON IN 1609.

LUNAR PHASES

EARTH MOON RELATIONSHIP

MARS • THE ROMANS NAMED MARS AFTER THEIR GOD OF WAR. • THE SURFACE IS COVERED BY HUGE CANYONS, MOUNTAINS, ICECAPS AND VOLCANOS. • THE ATMOSPHERE IS TO THIN TO BREATH. • SOME SAY LIFE EXISTED ON THE PLANET AT SOME TIME. • PHOBOS AND DEIMOS ARE THE MOONS OF MARS.

IN 1938, AMERICANS LISTENED TO ORSON WELLES WHO NARRATED THE STORY “THE WAR OF THE WORLDS” AND BEFORE THE PROGRAM ENDED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE THOUGHT MARTIANS WERE INVADING THE EARTH.

THERE IS A LARGE BODY OF DEBRIS IN THE SUNS GRAVITATIONAL ORBIT THAT IS REMNANT FROM THE BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM-THE ASTROID BELT

JUPITER • THE LARGEST OF THE PLANETS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. • IT IS 300 TIMES HEAVIER THAN THE EARTH. • THE PLANET IS A GIANT STORM OF HYDROGEN, AMMONIA AND METHANE. • A DAY ON JUPITER IS LESS THAN 10 HOURS LONG. • ITS FAST ROTATIONS CAUSES GREAT WINDS.

JUPITERS MOONS. • IO • EUROPA • GANYMEDE • CALISTO

THE HUGE RED SPOT ON JUPITER IS IN FACT A HUGE AND VIOLENT STORM. A WHIRLPOOL OF GASES THAT WAS SEEN BY ASTRONOMERS ABOUT 300 YEARS AGO.

SATURN’S RINGS AND MOONS.

URANUS • NEARLY FOUR TIMES THE SIZE OF THE EARTH. • ORBITS THE SUN EVERY 84 YEARS. • MADE MAINLY OF HYDROGEN AND HELIUM • THE PLANET ROLLS THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEM ON ITS SIDE, POSSIBLY CAUSED FROM A COLLISION THAT SENT IT OFF ITS AXIS. • URANUS HAS FIVE MOONS.

NEPTUNE • THIS PLANET IS A VERY BLEAK AND WINDY PLACE. • IT HAS POISONOUS CLOUDS OF METHANE ICE CRYSTALS CONSTANTLY IN THE AIR. • NEPTUNE HAS EIGHT MOONS, THE LARGEST IS TRITON. • THIS PLANET IS THE SMALLEST OF THE FOUR GAS PLANETS.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST…THE DWARF PLANETS.

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