what is the solar system?

Answer 1

the sun together with the group of celestial bodies that are held by its gravitational attraction and revolve around it

Answer 2

It is the Sun and everything orbiting it, including all the planets, asteroids and meteoroids. That does NOT include planets recently discovered orbiting OTHER stars. Those are OTHER solar systems. It is possible that there are as many different solar systems as there are stars, but when people talk about THE solar system, they mean the one orbiting OUR Sun. But our Sun is just a regular star and would appear as an ordinary star, a tiny, dim spot of light only visible at night, in the sky of some planet in one of those other solar systems.

Answer 3

The Solar System contains:
1. The Sun
2. The 8 planets and their satellites: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
3. the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
4. The trans-neptunian objects such as Pluto, Sedna, Eris, etc.
5. The Kuiper belt
6. The Oort Cloud.
Most comets originate from the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud.

Answer 4

The Solar System or solar system comprises the Sun and the retinue of celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their 162 known moons, three currently identified dwarf planets and their four known moons, and thousands of small bodies. This last category includes asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and interplanetary dust.

In broad terms, the charted regions of the Solar System consist of the Sun, four rocky bodies close to it called the inner planets, an inner belt of rocky asteroids, four giant outer planets and a second belt of small icy bodies known as the Kuiper belt. In order of their distances from the Sun, the planets are Mercury (), Venus , Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn , Uranus and Neptune (). Six of the eight planets are in turn orbited by natural satellites (usually termed "moons" after Earth's Moon) and every planet past the asteroid belt is encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles. The planets other than Earth are named after gods and goddesses from Greco-Roman mythology. The three dwarf planets are Pluto,the largest known Kuiper belt object, Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, and Eris, which lies beyond the Kuiper belt in a region called the scattered disc.

Answer 5

I'm surprised you don't know the term, given we are in a highly-educated, informed society.
The "solar system" is the phrase used to describe our sun and the planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and assorted debris in orbit around the sun.
It usually means the area of space including out to the Oort Cloud of cometary bodies which extends to about 2 light years from the sun.

Answer 6

It is the sun and all the planets and moons and debris left over from the collision that initiated the solar system.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

its stars