As i want to make my blog more organised, I'm learning to do a horizontal tabs bar.
This tab is the solar system.
The basics
The solar system has the sun placed slap bang in the centre,the sun produces heat and gravity to keep the 8 planets in orbit. The 8 planets in order of closest to the sun to the farthest are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus (Don't laugh!) and Neptune. You may be wondering why Pluto isn't in there, well, in 2006, the European astronomy association decided that Pluto was one of many Dwarf planets in the solar system. Dwarf planets are small planets that don't have a clear orbit. (meaning there isn't a large amount of material in it's orbit. Between Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt, home to the other 3 most famous dwarf planets. They are: Eris, Makemake and Ceres. Another asteroid belt but a smaller one is in Pluto's orbit called the Keiper belt and beyond that, a bigger asteroid belt than the Keiper belt is the Oort cloud. And that is where our solar system is complete.
Hubble's deep field image
Saturday 26 November 2011
Galaxy clusters
Galaxy clusters are bassiclly big clumps of galaxies. Each Galaxy cluster has 1,000 galaxies to 1,000,000 (Anything above 1,000,000 is a supercluster) Our galaxy is in the local galactic group galaxy cluster and the virgo supercluster. With the Hubble telescope, sciencetists made a picture of the whole known universe which contained all the galaxy clusters and superclusters. If you look at it, it's like a sponge.
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