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These lists contain the Sun, the planets, dwarf planets, many of the larger small Solar System bodies (which includes the asteroids), all named natural satellites, and a number of smaller objects of historical or scientific interest, such as comets and near-Earth objects.
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English: This chart compares the (at the time of their discovery) smallest known exoplanets, or planets orbiting outside the solar system, to our own planets Mars and Earth. Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler mission and ground-based telescopes recently discovered the three smallest exoplanets known to circle another star, called Kepler ...
Images featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) web site may be copyrighted. The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) site has been known to host copyrighted content. Its photo gallery FAQ states that all of the images in the photo gallery are in the public domain "Unless otherwise noted."
Size of Saturn compared to Earth and Earth's Moon. Saturn is a gas giant, composed predominantly of hydrogen and helium. It lacks a definite surface, though it is likely to have a solid core. [37] The planet's rotation makes it an oblate spheroid—a ball flattened at the poles and bulging at the equator.
Planets and declared dwarf planets of the Solar System. Sizes are to scale. Distances from the Sun are not to scale. Sun ☉ Solar wind; Interplanetary medium; Inner Solar System. Inner planets. Mercury ☿ Venus ♀; Earth 🜨 The Moon ☾ Near-Earth objects; Van Allen radiation belt; Mars ♂ Moons of Mars; Asteroid belt. Asteroid groups ...
The inner Solar System and the terrestrial planets. 2021 PH27; Mercury. Mercury-crossing minor planets; Venus. Venus-crossing minor planets. 524522 Zoozve, Venus' quasi-satellite; Earth. Moon; Near-Earth asteroids (including 99942 Apophis) Earth trojan (2010 TK 7) Earth-crosser asteroids. Earth's quasi-satellites; 433 Eros; Mars. Deimos; Phobos ...