Updated Solar System Planets

The sun and its planets satellites planets comets meteorites the family of the sun called the solar system.

Updated solar system planets.

Mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune and then the possible. Jupiter the largest planet its dark red spot is a storm larger than earth. At most 10 among bodies known so far. Pluto also was listed as a planet until 2006.

Astronomers estimate that the solar system is more than 4 5 billion years old. Estimates have run as high as 200 in the kuiper belt and over 10 000 in the region beyond. This is a list of selected planets. There have been lots of interesting discoveries since no man s sky s latest update origins gave the galaxy a makeover.

The planets today shows you where the planets are now as a live display a free online orrery. Uranus uranus is tipped on its axis by almost 90 degrees. The order of the planets in the solar system starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following. As a rough guide the diameter of the planets on this 1 6 000 000 000 scale would be mercury 0 8mm earth and venus 2mm mars 1 1mm jupiter 2 4cm saturn 2cm uranus 8 5mm neptune 8 3mm.

There are 5 planets in the solar system 4 satellites with thousands of asteroids and millions of comets. In fact it accounts for 99 of the solar systems mass. The sun is the largest object in the solar system. The sun is the lifeblood of the solar system.

However consideration of the surprisingly low densities of many dwarf planet candidates suggests that the numbers may be much lower e g. The international astronomical union iau notes five in particular. As the term is applied to bodies in earth s solar system the international astronomical union iau lists eight planets orbiting the sun. In this solar system map you can see the planetary positions from 3000 bce to 3000 ce and also see when each planet is in retrograde.

To see a version of this video but with more explanation click here. The sun is the controller of all the planets and satellites of the solar system. 8 new solar system moons added enceladus charon tethys dione dysnomia methone ariel mimas 3 new exo planets added kepler 51b kepler 51c kepler 51d as the title suggests this project has the biggest collection of planets on the internet i think. The number of dwarf planets in the solar system is unknown.

With a few billion new planets and lots of variety added to the wildlife.