An outward journey in the "new" Solar System

An artist conception flyby view of the 12 currently known planets in the solar system, whose status are pending the approval of the proposed IAU resolution.




Starting from the Sun, we fly by Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and Charon, then pause to look back at Sun from the vicinity of the most distant planet, 2003 UB313.




Note: The planets are not drawn to scale.




Credit: The International Astronomical Union/Martin Kornmesser

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Tags:

• solar
• system
• pluto
• planets
• iau
• astronomy
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars
• Ceres
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Pluto
• Charon

[RJL738]

Thanks for showing this. Beyond the edge of the solar system, is a regend called the Oort cloud that reaches about a third of the way to the nearest star (more than 4.4 lightyears away) and contains hundreds of trillions of comets, maybe almost a quadrillion.

Even though their are now 8 planets, their are possible far more moons than have been discovered so far.

[ellebeem]

theres 12 planets .. number 10 planet X number 11 Planet GL Numer 12 TITAS OR W.E LOL

[curll12]

i agree with you 110%

[Xommon]

lol

[arpeggiocolour]

LOL! At first I didn't see the semicolon and thought you meant "a planet like pluto"

[Xommon]

OMG!!!! YOU HAVE TO READ MY MESSAGE AND FIGURE OUT WAHT IT MEANS.. i said Ceres is not a planet because it doesn't have the qualifications to be a planet; just like pluto

[arpeggiocolour]

Xommon, Pluto's not a planet either.

[Xommon]

Ceres is an asteroid! Not a planet because it doesn't have the qualifications to be a planet; like pluto. (FYI, you dont have to capitalize "pluto" when you write/type it! Yay!)

[RandeeUrtun]

hey, only counted 11

[vality7]

no it was named Eris