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The Solar System

 The Solar System is our home and it is certainly one we can be proud to live in.

The Solar System consists of our star the Sun, which is orbited by the planets and their satellites, comets, Kuiper belt objects, the asteroids and dust. Many solar system objects can be seen with the naked eye and have been studied since ancient times.
The Sun
The Sun
Mercury
Mercury
Venus
Venus
This representation of the Solar system is not to scale - Picture credit - NASA
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Mars
Jupiter
The Earth Mars Jupiter
The Asteroid Belt
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
The Kuiper Belt
Comets and the Oort cloud
The Asteroid Belt Saturn Neptune
Space Plasma
Solar System
 Formation
Solar System
Dynamics
The Kuiper Belt Comets and the Oort cloud Solar System Dynamics Solar System Formation Space Plasma Uranus Solar System Diagram
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The Earth and the Moon

More recently, space probes have been sent out into the Solar System and have made close up investigations of the planets.


We now have a greater appreciation of the enormous diversity of the objects in the Solar System - every planet and satellite is a different and unique world. There are the rocky terrestrial type planets like Venus and the beautiful gas giants like Jupiter. Further out lay the Comets of the Oort Cloud.


Click on the links below to take a virtual tour through our home system.