solar system

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To visualize this density, imagine placing the solar system inside a cube one light-year on each side.

From Science Daily

As the solar system moves through the universe, this motion produces a subtle "headwind": slightly more radio galaxies appear in the direction of travel.

From Science Daily

With these new baby pictures of a solar system, astronomers can start to research the conditions that our home planet might have grown up in.

From Space Scoop

All solar systems, even our own, started out as a protoplanetary disc: a cloud of rotating gas and dust that eventually flattened.

From Space Scoop

Saturn orbits beyond what astronomers call the "snow line" in the solar system, along with other giant planets that host icy moons, including Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune.

From Science Daily