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  2. Family Portrait (Voyager) - Wikipedia

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    The Family Portrait of the Solar System taken by Voyager 1. The Family Portrait, or sometimes Portrait of the Planets, is an image of the Solar System acquired by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from a distance of approximately 6 billion km (40 AU; 3.7 billion mi) from Earth. It features individual frames of six planets and a partial background ...

  3. Solar System - Wikipedia

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    The Solar System remains in a relatively stable, slowly evolving state by following isolated, gravitationally bound orbits around the Sun. [28] Although the Solar System has been fairly stable for billions of years, it is technically chaotic, and may eventually be disrupted. There is a small chance that another star will pass through the Solar ...

  4. Diagram to show the vastness of our universe. Details the inner solar system, the outer solar system, the orbit of comet Sedna and the beginnings of the Oort cloud. Attractive, large image showing to scale the distances between objects in our solar system. However, needs conversion to SVG before nomination.

  5. But I can't take credit for the caption, as it says, I pretty much just copied it from Solar System. --Will Mak 050389 17:04, 19 August 2006 (UTC) Conditional support. (Add a link to the article covering the IAU redefinition in the caption.) Good pic. --Billpg 10:02, 19 August 2006 (UTC) Oppose Q: How many planets in our solar system have moons ...

  6. Jupiter, ascending: See our solar system’s biggest planet at ...

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    NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the mission's 54th close flyby of the giant planet Sept. 7, 2023.

  7. Pale Blue Dot - Wikipedia

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    Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of over 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.

  8. List of natural satellites - Wikipedia

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    Of the Solar System's eight planets and its nine most likely dwarf planets, six planets and seven dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 300 natural satellites, or moons. At least 19 of them are large enough to be gravitationally rounded; of these, all are covered by a crust of ice except for Earth's Moon and Jupiter's Io . [ 1 ]

  9. Family Portrait (MESSENGER) - Wikipedia

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    The Solar System Family Portrait is an image of many of the Solar System's planets and moons acquired by MESSENGER during November 2010 from approximately the orbit of Mercury. The mosaic is intended to be complementary to the Voyager 1 ' s Family Portrait acquired from the outer edge of the Solar System on February 14, 1990.