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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. 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.

  4. List of Solar System objects - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, ordered by increasing distance from the Sun. Most named objects in this list have a diameter of 500 km or more. The Sun, a spectral class G2V main-sequence star; The inner Solar System and the terrestrial planets. 2021 PH27; Mercury. Mercury-crossing minor planets; Venus. Venus-crossing ...

  5. The Solar Orbiter just snapped the closest-ever pictures of ...

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    The Solar orbiter just produced the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun, revealing our parent star in stunning detail. This joint mission from NASA and the ESA launched on February 9 of this ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Lists of astronomical objects - Wikipedia

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    List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun; List of Solar System objects by size; Lists of geological features of the Solar System; List of natural satellites (moons) Lists of small Solar System bodies; Lists of comets; List of meteor showers; Minor planets. List of minor planets. List of exceptional asteroids; List of minor planet ...

  8. Artists representation of the solar system with grid plane (not to scale) Image:Solar sys.jpg with Pluto removed to show only "Classic" planets This is an improved image, removing Pluto. This is my first nomination for any featured object on Wikipedia, so I hope I do this correctly.

  9. Category:Solar System images - Wikipedia

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    Media in category "Solar System images" The following 7 files are in this category, out of 7 total. 0–9. File:433eros.jpg; D.