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2. In Depth | Our Solar System - NASA Solar System Exploration

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   Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids.

3. In Depth | Sun – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   The Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system. It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s our solar system’s only star. Without the Sun’s energy, life as we know it could not exist on our home planet.

4. What is a Planet? | Planets – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.

5. Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration

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   Planet Compare. NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.

6. In Depth | Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   There are hundreds of moons in our solar system – even asteroids have been found to have small companion moons. Of the terrestrial (rocky) planets of the inner solar system, neither Mercury nor Venus have any moons at all, Earth has one and Mars has its two small moons.

7. In Depth | Earth's Moon – NASA Solar System Exploration

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   The brightest and largest object in our night sky, the Moon makes Earth a more livable planet by moderating our home planet's wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively stable climate. It also causes tides, creating a rhythm that has guided humans for thousands of years.

8. Atoms, Elements, and Isotopes - NASA Solar System Exploration

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   Observations show that the same elements exist throughout the known universe. We organize information about the elements in the form of a periodic table.

9. Genesis Education: Cosmic Chemistry: Cosmogony - NASA Solar...

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   Cosmologists study the present universe, while cosmogonists study the origin of the universe. Observations about our present universe not only allow predictions of the future, but they also provide clues to events that happened long ago when the chemical evolution of the cosmos began.

10. 10 Things: Spitzer Space Telescope - NASA Solar System...

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    While its field of view changes throughout the year, at any given time it can see about one-third of the sky. NASA’s Kepler space telescope, famous for finding thousands of exoplanets – planets outside our solar system -- also settled in an Earth-trailing orbit six years after Spitzer.

11. RPS 3D Viewer – NASA Solar System Exploration

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    Site last updated: September 3, 2024. NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.