SUN

 The Sun and the eight main planets together with a

number of dwarf planets and smaller rocks make up
the Solar System.
 The Sun is our local star.
 It is an enormous fiery ball shooting light and heat in
all directions.
 The Sun’s rays light and heat the Sun.
 Without the Sun’s warmth and energy, no living
things could survive on the earth.
 Mercury

 Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system is

the closest planet to the sun.
 Though closest planet to the sun, its surface can still
be extremely cold.
 Scientist believes that a huge asteroid slammed into
Mercury about 4 billion years ago, creating giant
crater about 960 miles (1,545 km) across.
 Scientists also think that there is ice inside Mercury’s
craters. Mercury’s iron core takes up about 75of the
planets radius.
 Venus

 Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is the

second brightest object in the night sky after the
moon.
 Venus does not have any moons or rings.
 The surface temperature of Venus can reach
417 degrees Celsius.
 Venus rotates in the opposite direction to most
other planets.
 Earth

 Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only
astronomical object known to harbour life.
 Earth’s gravity interacts with other objects in space,
especially the Sun and the Moon, Earth’s only
natural satellite.
 Earth revolves around the Sun in 365.26 days, a
period known as an Earth year.
 The Earth looks blue from space because it is mainly
covered by oceans.
 Mars

 Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the

second smallest planet in the Solar System
 Mars and Earth have approximately the same
landmass.
 Mars is the home of the tallest mountain in the solar
system.
 Only 18 missions to Mars have been successful.
 Mars has the largest dust storm in the solar system.
 Jupiter

 The planet Jupiter is the fifth planet out from the sun
and is two and a half times more massive than all the
other planets in the solar system.
 It is the fourth brightest planet in the solar system.
 It is one of the five planets which is visible to the
naked eye from the Earth.
 The planet is made up of hydrogen and helium,
roughly the same proportion found in the Sun.
Saturn

 Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the

second largest in the solar system, after
Jupiter.
 It is a gas giant with an average radius about
nine times that of Earth.
 It has only one eighth the average density of
Earth.
 With its larger volume Saturn is over ninety five
times more massive.
Uranus

 Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun,

orbiting at a distance of 2.88 billion km.
 Uranus became the first planet to be
discovered with a telescope by William
Herschel, from England in 1781.
 A sidereal day on Uranus (that is, the time it
takes for the planet to complete a single
rotation on its axis) is only about 17hours long.
 But the tilt of Uranus is so pronounced that one
pole or the other is usually pointed towards
the Sun.
 Neptune

 Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet

from the Sun in the Solar System.
 With an equatorial radius of only 24,764 km,
Neptune is smaller than all the other gas giants in the
Solar System.
 Neptune orbits the Sun once every 164.8 years.
 Neptune is not visible to the unaided eye and is the
only planet in the Solar System found by
Mathematical prediction rather than by empirical
observation.
Galaxy

 A Galaxy is a huge structure of stars, gas and

dust, usually in a spiral shape, and elliptical ball
or an irregular cloud.
 To begin with, the galaxies were just huge
cloud of gas, many hydrogen.
 Gravity pulled the gas together into separate
clouds that heated up and began to shine as
stars.
 Galaxies which occur in clusters, (Milky Way
cluster) range from “dwarfs” with perhaps a
million stars to “supergiant”.
 Dwarf Planet

 A dwarf planet is a small planetary object that

is neither a planet nor a natural satellite.
 Our Solar System consists of five dwarf planets
mainly Pluto, Ceres, Haumea, Makemake and
Eris.
 Stars

 All the stars in the night sky are suns, like our
Sun.
 Believe it or not, our Sun is just one of 100
billion stars in our part of the universe.
 Our Sun belongs to a huge group of stars called
the Milky Way.