SOLAR SYSTEM
The Solar System was formed
approximately 4.6 billion years
ago and consists of the Sun,
planets, dwarf planets and other
astronomical objects bound in its
orbit.
Our solar system is made up of a
star, eight planets and countless
smaller bodies such as dwarf
planets, asteroids and comets
HOW THE SOLAR SYSTEM
FORMED?
Solar system formation began
approximately 4.5 billion years ago,
when gravity pulled a cloud of dust
and gas together to form our solar
system.
Scientists can't directly study how
our own solar system formed, but
combining observations of young
stellar systems in a range of
wavelengths with computer
simulations has led to models of what
could have happened so many years
THE SUN
The Sun is the star at the center of the
Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of
hot plasma,[18][19] heated to incandescence
by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The
Sun radiates this energy mainly as light,
ultraviolet, and infrared radiation, and is
the most important source of energy for
life on Earth.
The Sun's radius is about 695,000
kilometers (432,000 miles), or 109 times
that of Earth. Its mass is about 330,000
times that of Earth, comprising about
99.86% of the total mass of the Solar
System.
PLANETS
HOW MANY PLANETS ARE HERE IN
SOLAR SYSTEM??
Mainly, there are two types
of planets in our solar
system:-
Terrestrial or inner planets –
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
Giant or outer planets – Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
MERCURY
Mercury is the smallest planet in the
Solar System and the closest to the
Sun. Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97
Earth days, the shortest of all the Sun's
planets.
Your weight on Mercury would be 38% of
your weight on Earth.
A solar day on the surface of Mercury lasts
176 Earth days.
A year on Mercury takes 88 Earth days.
It’s not known who discovered Mercury.
VENUS
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It
is sometimes called Earth's "sister" or "twin"
planet as it is almost as large and has a
similar composition. As an interior planet to
Earth, Venus (like Mercury) appears in
Earth's sky never far from the Sun, either as
morning star or evening star. Aside from the
Sun and Moon, Venus is the
brightest natural object in Earth's sky,
capable of casting visible shadows on Earth
at dark conditions and being visible to the
naked eye in broad daylight.[18][19]
EARTH
Earth is the third planet from the Sun in
the Solar System. It is the only planet
known to have life on it. The Earth
formed about 4.5 billion years ago.[29
The large mass of the Sun keeps the Earth in
orbit through the force of gravity.[31] Earth also
turns around in space, so that different parts
face the Sun at different times. Earth goes
around the Sun once (one year) for every 365
1
⁄4 times it turns around (one day).
It is one of four rocky planets on the inner
side of the Solar System. The other three are
Mercury, Venus, and Mars.
MARS
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun
and the next planet beyond Earth. It is,
on average, more than 142 million miles
from the Sun. Mars turns on its axis
more slowly than Earth does. So, a day
on Mars is 24.6 hours. Since this planet
is farther from the Sun than Earth, one
revolution of Mars around the Sun is a
longer trip. So, a year on Mars is 687
Earth days. Mars is about half the size of
Earth. Mars is known as the Red Planet
because the iron oxide chemicals in its
soil looks like rust.
JUPITER
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and
the largest in the Solar System. It is a
gas giant with a mass more than two and a
half times that of all the other planets in the
Solar System combined, but slightly less
than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun.
Jupiter is the third brightest natural object in
the Earth's night sky after the Moon and
Venus, and it has been observed since
prehistoric times. It was named after the
Roman god Jupiter, the king of the gods.
