Solar System Facts

To know exactly what solar system is, it is important to break it down into the two words that comprise the expression. The term solar is simply a word that means of the Sun and a system is just a collection of objects that interact to form a whole. Thus, putting the two words together provides the correct definition of “SOLAR SYSTEM”.
The solar system is a group of objects that interact with each other, the fundamental interaction for each object being the one it has with the Sun.
We have different objects in our solar system-The planets, dwarf planets and other objects in our solar system includes a star, planets, moons, dwarf planets, comets, asteroids, gas, and dust. In terms of the numbers of each of these objects, there is one star (The Sun), eight planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune), five dwarf planets (Pluto, Ceres, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris), 181 moons, 566,000 asteroids, 3,100 comets. In terms of mass, the Sun comprises over 99.8% of the Solar System, with the planet Jupiter accounting for most of the remaining mass, since it is the largest planet in the solar system.
Moving on to their interaction, all objects in the Solar System orbit the Sun; that is, they move around the Sun in elliptical paths. Moreover, the orbits of these objects lie roughly in the same plane, called the ecliptic plane. The fundamental forces in nature: gravity causes the orbit of objects in the Solar System is one of. While the natural tendency for objects in the Solar System is to continue in a straight line of motion, the Sun exerts gravity on each object and therefore “bends” the straight path into a curved one. Also the other objects in the Solar System are massive enough to exert gravitational forces significant enough to alter the orbit of smaller objects.
Over the course of the 20th century the size of the Solar System extends to almost 2 light years increasing 125,000 times the distance from the Sun to the Earth but also that there are many objects beyond Pluto. It is also believed that there are two major regions beyond Pluto. The first is
the Kuiper Belt, a region of asteroids similar to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and the Oort cloud, a spherical region that contains numerous comets.
Forming the parts of Solar System believed to be approximately 4.6 billion years ago a large cloud of gas and dust was disturbed by some forces results in energy introduction to the cloud, the cloud began to move. Once the movement began, the cloud started to collapse in on itself due to its own gravity, during the process of collapsing, the cloud began to rotate and heat up. As the cloud continued to collapse, the temperature continued to rise and its rotation became faster, so eventually clouds began to flatten out into a disk shape with most of the mass located at its center and at some point the pressure and temperature became so great at the cloud’s center that nuclear fusion began to take place. It was the birth of SUN.
After the Sun was born, the gases and dust further out from the disk’s center began to cool and condense into tiny particles forming planets and orbits. Over time, the orbits of the planets and other bodies stabilized into the solar system that we know today.

By: Saksham Gupta
Content: https://theplanets.org/solar-system/