Outer planet
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
- Solar System true color (title and caption).jpg
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 (
- Soot-line1.jpg
Diagram of the early Solar System's protoplanetary disk, out of which Earth and other Solar System bodies formed
- Sun red giant.svg
The current Sun compared to its peak size in the red-giant phase
A color enhanced photopgraph from the Moon of a range of components of the Solar System. The three dots at the lower left are from left to right the planets Saturn, Mars, and Mercury, and in the middle of the picture rises the Sun's corona over the dark limb of the Moon, which is from the right lit by earthshine.
- Solar system orrery inner planets.gif
Animations of the Solar System's inner planets orbiting. Each frame represents 2 days of motion.
- Solar system orrery outer planets.gif
Animations of the Solar System's outer planets orbiting. This animation is 100 times faster than the inner planet animation.
- Orbital distances in the solar system linear scale.png
Relative orbital distances in the Solar System visualized as a condensed rectangle
- Solar System distance to scale.svg
Comparison of the distances between planets, with the white bar showing orbital variations. The size of the planets is not to scale.
- The Sun in white light.jpg
The Sun in true white color
Related pages
References
- ↑ 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.