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Planet Compare – NASA Solar System Exploration NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system
In Depth | Sun – NASA Solar System Exploration The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way, bringing with it the planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects in our solar system Our solar system is moving with an average velocity of 450,000 miles per hour (720,000 kilometers per hour)
The Sun By the Numbers - NASA Solar System Exploration The Sun is the star at the heart of our solar system Its gravity holds the solar system together, keeping everything – from the biggest planets to the smallest bits of debris – in its orbit
Solar System Exploration The solar system has one star, eight planets, five dwarf planets, at least 290 moons, more than 1 3 million asteroids, and about 3,900 comets
In Depth | 1P Halley – NASA Solar System Exploration In 1986, the European spacecraft Giotto became one of the first spacecraft ever to encounter and photograph the nucleus of a comet, passing and imaging Halley's nucleus as it receded from the Sun Credit: Halley Multicolor Camera Team, Giotto Project, ESA | More about this image
In Depth | C 1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) - NASA Solar System Exploration Comet Hale-Bopp (C 1995 O1) was discovered on 23 July 1995 by two independent observers, Alan Hale (Cloudcroft, N M ) and Thomas Bopp (Stanfield, AZ), and is showing potential of putting on a spectacular display as it nears its 1997 perihelion
Jupiter - NASA Solar System Exploration Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun, and the largest in the solar system – more than twice as massive as the other planets combined
In Depth | 19P Borrelly - NASA Solar System Exploration In this highest resolution view of the icy, rocky nucleus of comet Borrelly, (about 45 m or 150 feet per pixel) a variety of terrains and surface textures, mountains and fault structures, as well as darkened material are visible over the nucleus's surface
The Invisible Sun: How Hot Is It? - NASA Solar System Exploration The Sun and Solar Wind: The Invisible Sun: How Hot Is It? A Search for the Beginning TEACHER GUIDE BACKGROUND INFORMATION In this introductory activity, students will “model the model” of nuclear fusion in the