Saturday, 15 November 2014

nebula

our galaxy is filled with beautiful clouds of glowing gas and dust called nebula. they are stuff stars made of and the place some stars scatter their remains and die
                                            

Thursday, 13 November 2014

comets

comets are among the most attractive  objects in the solar system. these small lumps of ice and rock, only a few miles across, would be all but invisible from earth were it not for brilliant tails, which can stretch for tens of millions of miles across space

pluto and beyond


origin of name:
Pluto,Greek god of underworld.
moons:
3.
relative size:                                                              
smallest, not a planet
                                      
The Kuiper belt is the home to Pluto and other dwarf planets ,located after Neptune orbit. 

Pluto is a large object in the Kuiper belt and the second-most-massive known dwarf planet, after Eris(also a dwarf planet). Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is primarily made of rock and ice and relatively small 


Saturday, 2 November 2013

neptune

origin of name :

the roman god of sea 

length of year :
164 earth years

position from sun :
8th

relative size:
4th biggest

unlike the other giants , some of its rings are incomplete arcs .This planet generates heat of its own and this powers its dramatic weather systems
Triton is the largest moon of the planet  Neptune, discovered on oct 10,1846,by english astronamerWilliam . It is the only large moon in theSolar System with a retrograde orbit, which is an orbit in the opposite direction to its planet's rotation

uranus

Origin of name:
Uranus, the Roman God of sky.
Moons :
27
Length of year:
84.04 Earth years
Position from Sun:
7th
Relative Size:
3rd  biggest

Uranus is the only planet  that is tipped on its side. It has dark rings, and its atmosphere bland with a green tinge

Uranus has five major moons: Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel,Titania, and Oberon.All large moons are relatively dark objects.The major moons of Uranus are believed to have formed in the accretion disc, which existed around Uranus for some time after its formation or resulted from the large impact suffered by Uranus

saturn

origin of name :
 saturnus,roman god of agriculture.
moons: 
57
length of year;
 29.5 earth years.
position from sun: 
6th 
relative size: 
2nd biggest
Saturn has no solid surface and is almost all hydrogen and helium. Its famous beautiful rings are made of ice and rock


Moons of Saturn: Titan
Titan, the largest moon in the solar system after Ganymede ( Jupiter’s moon). It is the only moon with a thick atmosphere, made largely of Nitrogen. In 2005, the Huygens probe photographed its mysterious surface for the first time

Sunday, 21 April 2013

Jupiter


Jupiter
Origin of name:
Jove, the Roman God of Heaven and Earth.
Moons :
63
Length of year:
11.9 Earth Years
Position from Sun:
5th
Relative Size:
Biggest

Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system. It is a huge, round mass made mostly from gases. There is a huge storm on Jupiter that has been raging for thousands of year.
The stripes are bands of different gases. It has over 60 moons moving around it. All the moons are made of rock and ice.

Thebe is not round like most moons. Its surface is covered in huge craters.
The rocky surface of Europa is completely covered in a layer of ice.
Ganymede is the biggest moon in the solar system. It is bigger than mercury.