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    Our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago around the Sun. It consists of the Sun and everything that orbits around it, including 8 planets, with Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars closest to the Sun. The solar system also contains smaller objects like asteroids, comets and the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune's orbit. Galileo's observations with the telescope supported the Copernican model that planets revolve around the Sun, rather than Earth being the center of the universe. Since then, spacecraft like Voyager have explored and increased our understanding of the solar system.

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    Our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago around the Sun. It consists of the Sun and everything that orbits around it, including 8 planets, with Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars closest to the Sun. The solar system also contains smaller objects like asteroids, comets and the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune's orbit. Galileo's observations with the telescope supported the Copernican model that planets revolve around the Sun, rather than Earth being the center of the universe. Since then, spacecraft like Voyager have explored and increased our understanding of the solar system.

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    Our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago around the Sun. It consists of the Sun and everything that orbits around it, including 8 planets, with Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars closest to the Sun. The solar system also contains smaller objects like asteroids, comets and the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune's orbit. Galileo's observations with the telescope supported the Copernican model that planets revolve around the Sun, rather than Earth being the center of the universe. Since then, spacecraft like Voyager have explored and increased our understanding of the solar system.

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    OUR SOLAR SYSTEM: IN DEPTH

    Overview
    A solar system is a star and all of the objects that travel around it Figure 1: Solar System

    — planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids. Most stars host their own
    planets, so there are likely tens of billions of other solar systems in the Milky Way
    galaxy alone. Solar systems can also have more than one star. These are called binary
    star systems if there are two stars, or multi-star systems if there are three or more
    stars.
    The solar system we call home is located in an outer spiral arm of the vast Milky Way 1
    galaxy. It consists of the sun (our star) and everything that orbits around it.

    Our solar system formed about 4.6 The sun is the center of our solar
    billion years ago. system. It contains almost all of the
    The four planets closest to the sun -- mass in our solar system.
    Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.

    Size and Distance


    The solar system extends much farther than the eight planets that orbit the sun. The
    solar system also includes the Kuiper Belt that lies past Neptune's orbit. This is a
    sparsely occupied ring of icy bodies, almost all smaller than the most popular Kuiper
    Belt Object, dwarf planet Pluto.

    1
    The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.
    Exploration
    In the early 17th century, Galileo Galilei's discoveries using the recently invented
    telescope strongly supported the concept of a solar system in which all the planets,
    including Earth, revolve around a central star — the sun. At the time this was called
    Copernican heliocentric theory, and it was a revolutionary idea, as most people
    thought Earth was the center of the universe.

    Since then, we have learned much about our solar system and what lies beyond it
    using ground-based telescopes, spacecraft and mathematical models. The Voyager
    mission made an impact in a lot of areas of planetary science.

    Significant Dates
     1543: Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his theory of heliocentrism, a model that places the sun
    at the center of the known universe with the planets orbiting in circles around it.
     1609, 1619: Johannes Kepler publishes three laws of planetary motion.
     1610: Galileo Galilei publishes "The Starry Messenger," a pamphlet about his telescopic
    observations of Earth's moon, the phases of Venus, and four of Jupiter's moons.
     1781: William Herschel extends the solar system by telescopically discovering a new planet,
    later named Uranus.
     1846: Urbain Le Verrier, with confirming observations by Johann Galle, further extends the
    solar system by predicting (Le Verrier) and observing (Galle) a new planet, Neptune.
     1930: Clyde Tombaugh's photographic search discovers a member of the solar system
    beyond Neptune, named Pluto, initially classified as a planet but now considered a dwarf
    planet.
     1977: Voyagers 1 and 2 launch from Earth, beginning their mission to explore the far reaches
    of our solar system.
     2012: Voyager 1 enters interstellar space.

    The following table lists statistical information for the Sun and planets:
    Table 1: -Sun and Planet summary

    Distance Radius Mass Rotatio Moons Inclinatio Obliquity Density


    n n
    Sun 0 109 332,800 25-36* 9 --- --- 1.410
    Mercury 0.39 0.38 0.05 58.8 0 7 0.1° 5.43
    Venus 0.72 0.95 0.89 244 0 3.394 177.4° 5.25
    Earth 1.0 1.00 1.00 1.00 1 0.000 23.45° 5.52
    Mars 1.5 0.53 0.11 1.029 2 1.850 25.19° 3.95
    Jupiter 5.2 11 318 0.411 16 1.308 3.12° 1.33
    Saturn 9.5 9 95 0.428 18 2.488 26.73° 0.69
    Neptune 30.1 4 17 0.802 8 1.774 29.56° 1.64
    Pluto 39.5 0.18 0.002 0.267 1 17.15 119.6° 2.03

    Mercur
    Sun Venus Earth
    y

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