Outer planet

From top to bottom: Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter to approximate scale and color.

The outer planets are planets in the Solar System that are beyond the asteroid belt. The four planets; Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are gas giants. All four of these planets have planetary rings which are made up of dust and other particles.^[1]

Outer Planet Media

Finally... the true color of the Solar System, with title and captions! Dwarf planets are sorted by radius ascending from top down, with four main classifications from right to left: Asteroid belt (Ceres, above the Jovian moons), Kuiper belt (Orcus, Quaoar, Makemake, Haumea, Pluto), scattered disk (Gonggong, Eris), and detached objects (Sedna)Planet and moon credits: User:MotloAstro (
Diagram of the early Solar System's protoplanetary disk, out of which Earth and other Solar System bodies formed
The current Sun compared to its peak size in the red-giant phase
Animations of the Solar System's inner planets orbiting. Each frame represents 2 days of motion.
Animations of the Solar System's outer planets orbiting. This animation is 100 times faster than the inner planet animation.
Comparison of the distances between planets, with the white bar showing orbital variations. The size of the planets is not to scale.
Relative orbital distances in the Solar System visualized as a condensed rectangle
The Sun in true white color
The four terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars

↑ Wolf, Portia. "The Outer Planets". Laboratory For Atmosphere And Space Physics. University of Colorado. Archived from the original on 30 December 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2012.