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In Depth | Sun – NASA Solar System Exploration The Sun is a 4 5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s our solar system’s only star Without the Sun’s energy, life as we know it could not exist on our home planet
The Sun By the Numbers - NASA Solar System Exploration The Sun is the star at the heart of our solar system Its gravity holds the solar system together, keeping everything – from the biggest planets to the smallest bits of debris – in its orbit
In Depth | Our Solar System - NASA Solar System Exploration Our solar system consists of our star, the Sun, and everything bound to it by gravity – the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune; dwarf planets such as Pluto; dozens of moons; and millions of asteroids, comets, and meteoroids
Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system
RPS 3D Viewer - NASA Solar System Exploration NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system
Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud - NASA Solar System Exploration 42 AU from the Sun — the first time a Kuiper Belt object (or KBO for short) had been sighted (One astronomical unit, or AU, is the mean distance of Earth from the Sun: about 150 million kilome-ters or 93 million miles ) More than 1,300 KBOs have been iden-tified since 1992 They are sometimes called Edgeworth–Kuiper
In Depth | Asteroids - NASA Solar System Exploration Most of this ancient space rubble can be found orbiting our Sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt Asteroids range in size from Vesta – the largest at about 329 miles (530 kilometers) in diameter – to bodies that are less than 33 feet (10 meters) across
In Depth | Kuiper Belt – NASA Solar System Exploration The Kuiper Belt is one of the largest structures in our solar system – others being the Oort Cloud, the heliosphere, and the magnetosphere of Jupiter Its overall shape is like a puffed-up disk or donut Its inner edge begins at the orbit of Neptune, at about 30 AU from the Sun (1 AU, or astronomical unit, is the distance from Earth to the Sun )