The Solar System
| Mercury
| Venus
| Earth
| Mars
| Ceres
| Jupiter
Saturn
| Chiron
| Uranus
| Neptune
| Pluto
The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud
| Quaoar
| Eris
| Sedna
The Solar System is a family of eight planets, several dwarf planets, and many smaller objects, all revolving around the same star - our Sun.
To the ancient Babylonians and Greeks the five visible planets [Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. ] were known as wandering stars because from night to night they changed their position in the sky. Observers have wondered what these 'wandering stars' are and how they are related. The invention of the telescope answered some of the questions yet many remain. How did the planets form? Why is the Sun a single star in a sky full of binary systems? Why is Ceres smaller than Mars? Why does Jupiter have its Great Red Spot? Is there life on Europa ? We have theories that try to answer some of these questions, but
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