What is a Solar System technology?

Solar System, the name pretty much says it all

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Solar System, the name pretty much says it all. Solar means sun, so solar system means sun system, which means a star and everything that’s within its sphere of influence. For Earthlings, our solar system is our Sun, its eight planets; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (no, Pluto is not a planet), all of the moons orbiting these planets, like Titan and Europa, all the asteroids orbiting our Sun, most of them in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, all of the comets orbiting our Sun, and other objects such as clouds of gas and dust.

In our Solar System, after its last planet, Neptune, comes another belt of asteroid-like objects, called the Kuiper Belt. Asteroids are primarily made of rock, but Kuiper Belt Objects are made from a mixture of rock and ice, as they formed further from the Sun in a cooler region in which ice could freeze into a solid in space. Like asteroids, Kuiper Belt Objects range in size and shape, and some of them are massive enough to have enough gravity to compress themselves into spheres, this is what Pluto is. Pluto may look like a planet, but actually it’s basically a large asteroid made out of ice and rock floating within the Kuiper Belt.

Read on and I’ll explain what a solar system is. Pretty sure you already know? You may be surprised.Actually, for the Universe I’ll try my best, but it turns out the Universe is probably a much weirder place than people previously thought.Then in future posts I’ll tackle what a galaxy and the Milky Way actually is, and then what the Universe is.Astrobiology, Astronomical Unit, Astronomy, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, Solar System, Solar Wind