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Planets Of The Solar Systems
There are nine planets in the Solar System, and they are sun, mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. If we were to arrange the planets in the Solar System in a specific order, then it would be in the above order. These planets revolve around the sun, and they also orbit around themselves. |
The smaller celestial bodies found in the orbits of these planets are called moon. For example, the Earth has one moon and Jupiter has 16 moons. Saturn has several moons.More...
How Was The Solar System Born ?
There are many interesting theories on how the Solar System came into existence. The most popular one among them is that the Solar System was born out of a nebula, which had a very dense nucleus called the protosun. This protosun was surrounded by gaseous matter and the dust soon started collapsing on itself. The dense matter started clearing up and center of the Solar System condensed.More...
How Many Planets Are Outside Our Solar System ?
Scientists and astronomers have been after two things and that is our Solar System and the universe. How these were created and what lies inside and outside the Solar System is a big question to us. The Solar System has been explored much more through telescopes than the entire universe. Other than the Earth we all know that there are nine planets in the Solar System.More...
The Solar System is made up of nine planets. All of them are arranged in a certain sequence. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and it is very hot. It is the first planet after the sun in the Solar System. The sun is the central star of the Solar System around which all other planets revolve.More...
Solar System Projects For Kids
The best way to explore and learn about the Solar System for the kids is through projects. Just like adults wonder what is in the sky even kids are fascinated with moons and stars. Kids are taught early in school about the Solar System and the nine planets. However, since most of it is theory, it is very difficult to explain how the Solar System looks like for them.More...
Astronomers and scientists make an educated guess that the Solar System could have formed some 4.56 billions years ago, and its formation could have been caused due to the collapse of a giant molecular cloud. All the collapsed mass collected in the center and formed the sun. The remaining could have spread in the form of a disk, and then the planets, moon, asteroids and smaller objects in the Solar System could have formed.More...
What Knowledge Do Comets And Asteroids Provide To Studies Of The Origin Of The Solar System ?
As far as the Solar System goes, we all know that it has nine planets and all the planets revolve around the sun. Sciences like astrology are based on this concept. These objects would include the moons and the planets. The explanation is simple as to why planets and moons and steroids behave in a certain way and it is the gravitational force. However, when it comes to the creation of the Solar System, several questions come to our mind as to how the whole Solar System and the universe evolved.More...
There are so many interesting facts about the Solar System that we know only a few things about it and there is more being discovered. We used to believe that our Solar System is made up of nine planets only and they revolve around the sun. However, there is much more to our own Solar System than we think.More...
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