Planet Earth Galaxy Solar System

Saturn saturn has the brightest most massive and most complex ring system of any planet.

Planet earth galaxy solar system.

We live on a planet called earth that is part of our solar system. Solar systems orbit around their galaxies just as planets orbit around their suns. A galaxy is a huge collection of gas dust and billions of stars and their solar systems. The milky way galaxy is presently pushing 14 billion.

Includes the outer planets jupiter saturn uranus neptune. Many people are not clear about the difference between our solar system our milky way galaxy and the universe. And while it took 4 billion plus years for technological intelligence to develop on our planet the galaxy contains plenty of planetary systems of comparable age as well as others much older. But where is our solar system.

A galaxy is held together by gravity. The galaxy that contains the earth and its solar system is called the milky way. Our solar system is just one specific planetary system a star with planets orbiting around it. Cited distance is the 2 1 resonance with jupiter which marks the outer limit of the asteroid belt.

Encompasses the sun the inner planets mercury venus earth mars and the asteroid belt. Earth the only planet in our solar system with liquid water on the surface. Our solar system consists of our star the sun and its orbiting planets including earth along with numerous moons asteroids comet material rocks and dust our sun is just one star among the hundreds of billions of stars in our milky way galaxy. It takes the earth s solar system roughly 200 to 250 million years to complete its orbit.

Inner solar system 6 54 au. It s a small part of the milky way galaxy. Let s look at the basics. Mars mars was a wet and warm planet billions of years ago.

Our galaxy the milky way also has a supermassive black hole in the middle. This galaxy is thought to contain more than 200 billion different stars. We hope you ll join us for a trip through our solar system and the planets and stars beyond. The fifth planet from the sun jupiter is a giant gas world that is the most massive planet in our solar system more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined according to nasa.

Our planetary system is the only one officially called solar system but astronomers have discovered more than 2 500 other stars with planets orbiting them in our galaxy. That s just how many we ve found so far. A beautiful zoom out from earth to galaxy must watch the milky way is the galaxy that contains our solar system.