Solar System
Formed 4.6 billion years ago
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Planets
Mercury
Fastest planet
Humans cannot breathe there
Moonless and ringless
Venus
A day in Venus is longer than a year
Hotter than Mercury
Soins clockwise on its own axis.
Earth
Human life
Squishy interior
Earths surface is mainly water
Mars
It is red because of all the iron in the soil.
Looks warm but is very cold.
Jupiter
Covered in swirling cloud stripes.
Gas giant
Biggest planet on the Solar System
Saturn
Second shortest day in the solar system.
You cannot stand on saturn
Very windy in Saturn
Uranus
Third largest diameter in the solar system
Discovered in 1781 by astronauts.
Neptune
No visible to the naked eye.
Coldest Planet
Moons
Earth's only natural satellite
The Moon controls the tides.
The Moon was made when a rock smashed onto Earth.
Moon lacks an atmosphere .
Stars
They twinkle because of the movement in Earths atmosphere.
The smaller they are, the longer they live.
Stars are bigger and brighter than the sun.
Sun
Light from the sun takes eight minutes
Eventually the sun will be the same size as the Earth.
93 million miles from the Earth.
One million Earths can fit in a Sun.
Rocks & Asteroids
Planets were made by rocks smashing together.
They are approximately 200-400 billion stars in
our Milky Way Galaxy alone.
Some asteroids have moons of their own.
The vast majority of asteroids in the solar system are found in a region.
No gravity
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Part of the Milky Way
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