Amazing facts about the Solar System, did you know?

The Solar System includes the Sun and those celestial objects, which are bound to each other by gravitational force in this system.

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As an ice giant, Uranus does not have a true surface. The planet is mostly a rotating fluid.

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The Red Planet is very cold, so cold that ice and frost can form not only at the poles.

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It is a gas giant with an average radius of about nine and a half times that of Earth. It has only one-eighth of Earth's average density

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NASA scientists have announced that Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede has a vast underground ocean of salt water

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The Solar System was formed 4.6 billion years ago from a cloud of gas and dust called the Solar Nebula.

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There are at least 250 to 500 billion stars in the Milky Way - there may be more. There are at least 30 times more stars in the Milky Way than there are on Earth.

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At one time people thought that the earth was flat. We now know and can prove through satellite images that it is a sphere.

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On the night of 23 September 1846, astronomers discovered Neptune through a telescope.

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Yellow clouds made of sulfur cover the entire planet. We can often see it at night. This is usually the first 'star' you will see.

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