In Depth | Mercury

The smallest planet in our solar system and nearest to the Sun, Mercury is only slightly larger than Earth's Moon. From the surface of Mercury, the Sun would appear more than three times as large as it does when viewed from Earth, and the sunlight would be as much as seven times brighter. Despite its proximity to the Sun, Mercury is not the hottest planet in our solar system - that title belongs to nearby Venus, thanks to its dense atmosphere. But Mercury is the fastest planet, zipping around the Sun every 88 Earth days.

Help with random facts about planets in our solar system.?

The most no of moons on one planet is Jupiter 63 Saturn 26 Uranus 19 Neptune 13 Mars 2 Earth 1 Venus These planets have no moons at all 0 Mercury

Question about planets discovered outside our solar system.?

contained in the superb ten years they have got here across nicely over one hundred extrasolar planets, which includes a gas tremendous in easy words 10.5 mild years away. the tremendous Binocular Telescope, an interferometer, should be able to photo a number of them immediately

Question about the star that exploded to form our solar system.?

i missed this show to bad but there are stars that are several times the size of ours i do not know the exact scale but the size would be like our moon compared to our sun

Is Saturn the only planet or moon within our solar system...?

first and foremost, saturn is a planet..and no, all the gas giants starting with jupiter up to the farthest planet neptune has rings..only saturn has the most pronounced one

what is the largest palnet in universe?

nobody knws the largest in the universe but the largest in our solar system is jupiter

okay , i don't believe in god but does anyone else think our solar system was intended?

There's not much design to our solar system. Many planets have moons. Many planets have just one moon. Some planets are a similar distance from a star. We have evidence of water on other planets. There are other solar systems with multiple planets. The fact that one of those planets ended up the right temperature where life could develop does not require any design. There are many other planets that are not quite right, and there are several that we know of that are.

Topic beyond our solar system...?

because its in uncomplicated words an assumption that outdoors our image voltaic equipment there are different image voltaic structures and scientists have got here upon some proves bout that those are some names: image voltaic equipment - The solar and its planetary equipment, the first such equipment got here upon PSR B125712 - the first extrasolar planetary equipment got here upon, the first pulsar planetary equipment got here upon, the first multi exoplanet equipment got here upon Upsilon Andromedae - the first multiplanet extrasolar planetary equipment got here upon round a significant sequence admired human being, got here upon to be so in April 1999 PSR B1620-26 - the first multistar planetary equipment got here upon. 55 Cancri - the most important extrasolar planetary equipment got here upon (5 prevalent planets as of November 6, 2007, alongside with a miles off stellar companion.) Gliese 876 - the first equipment round a pink dwarf admired human being and the first got here upon to be in an orbital resonance HD 69830 - got here upon to have 3 Neptune-mass planets and an asteroid belt, all interior a million AU 2M1207 - the first imaged equipment and the first brown dwarf equipment with a planet got here upon Gliese 581 - first extrasolar equipment got here upon with a planet positioned in the liveable zone (Gliese 581 d) Mu Arae - The equipment's innermost planet change into the first "warm Neptune" to be got here upon HD 188753 - the first triple admired human being planetary equipment got here upon.

In the old days the "multitude" thought the world was the center of our solar system...?

Actually, according to Isaac Newton, either view is perfectly valid. Motion and position are completely relative - there is no universal ruler to apply. If you choose to think of yourself as stationary and the univese as revolving around you, you certainly may. The only downside is that it makes the math far more complicated. This is an important lesson on point-of-view. Just because you see everything as necessarily one way, it does not mean anyone else does, or even that either of you are wrong.