Tour Of The Solar System

Take a 360 degree virtual tour of our solar system with the help of crash course astronomy host phil plait.

Tour of the solar system. This incredible system of celestial objects contains a star eight planets 200 known moons and a variety of other objects such as asteroids comets and dwarf planets at the center the is an average sized middle aged yellow star known as the sun the eight planets and other bodies orbit the sun in a perpetual dance that. We will visit peculiar planets mysterious moons amazing asteroids crazy comets and if we have time we can look at some stars too. The solar system is our local neighborhood in space. The nine planets has been online since 1994 and was one of the first multimedia websites that appeared on the world wide web.

Venus venus thick atmosphere makes it the hottest planet in our solar system. A great way to learn about the space is to take a tour of a scale model of our solar system. Planet facts interesting planet facts mercury the smallest and fastest planet it zips around the sun in only 88 earth days. Subscribe to thought café s channel.

Take an interactive tour of the solar system or browse the site to find fascinating information facts and data about our planets the solar system and beyond. Jeffrey bennett author of the max science adventure series and one of the big kid science founders helped create the voyage scale model solar system on the national mall in washington d c. Solar system scope is an incredibly accurate solar system tour allowing you to explore the solar system the night sky and outer space in real time. Join me and my dog bobsdog for an exciting journey around your solar system and beyond.

Mars mars was a wet and warm planet billions of years ago. Our solar system consists of our star the sun and everything bound to it by gravity the planets mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus and neptune dwarf planets such as pluto dozens of moons and millions of asteroids comets and meteoroids. Welcome to bob the alien s tour of the solar system. All of the objects on the tour are accurately positioned based on where they are right this very second and the tour contains interesting facts and information about the many objects in space.

And the colorado scale model solar system on the university. Of the objects that orbit the sun directly the largest are the eight planets with the remainder being smaller objects the dwarf planets and small solar system bodies of the objects that orbit the sun indirectly the moons two are larger than the smallest planet. The solar system is the gravitationally bound system of the sun and the objects that orbit it either directly or indirectly.