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The planets today shows you where the planets are now as a live display - a free online orrery. In this solar system map you can see the planetary positions from 3000 BCE to 3000 CE, and also see when each planet is in retrograde.
A collection of interesting and thought provoking solar system maps. These maps show planets and dwarf planets in order, try to scale the solar system and also show a live view of asteroids and their locations.
This page provides a brief description of each of the planets (and links to dwarf planets) of our solar system. You can also find out about the difference between planets, dwarf planets and small solar system bodies (SSSBs) here .
This page provides a different way of looking at the solar system. It is geocentric and shows where the Sun and all the planets (and the moon) are in the sky. It doesn't show the distances to the planets and so this version of the orrery does not have any of the usual orbit controls or centre object selector.
The planets today brings you the highlights of solar system events for the next few months in 2024 - 2025. Includes Equinoxes, Solstices, Eclipses, Comets and Spacecraft events.
Our desktop app shows the position of 1P/Halley (Halley's Comet) from 1600 AD to 2200 AD. The data is from the NASA's JPL website . Outside of those dates the position cannot be calculated with much certainty.
This page provides a brief description of each of the dwarf planets of our solar system. Solar System Map - showing size, mass and orbital period, and orbit scale of planets & dwarf planets Available as a poster here
The planets today shows you where the planets are now as a live display - a free online orrery. You can see the planets positions from 3000 BC to 3000 AD, and also which are in retrograde. This page also describes the basic principles of astrology.
Pioneer 10 was the first Spacecraft to visit Jupiter and the first to traverse the Asteroid belt and to achieve solar system escape velocity and is now heading out of the Solar System. It was launched in 1972 and began photographing Jupiter from November, 1973.
A video showing the motion of the planets of our Solar System 2024. This video shows where the planets and dwarf planets are throughout 2024. This video allows visitors to see the positions of the planets at any time during the year by stopping the animation at the appropriate time.