solar systems
Stars with orbiting worlds
A solar system is a star and all the objects that orbit it—planets, moons, asteroids, comets.
Our solar system has the Sun at its center with eight planets.
The term extends loosely to any planetary system: Scientists discovered a solar system with three habitable worlds.
Figuratively, it can describe any central body with satellites orbiting around it.
- starsLuminous celestial bodies
- inner planetsRocky worlds nearest the sun
- gas giantsPlanets of hydrogen, helium
- rocky planetsSolid-surfaced celestial bodies
- cometsIcy bodies orbiting stars
Venus · orbit · orrery · heliocentric · habitable zone · Oort cloud · celestial bodies · astronomy · Kuiper belt · Mars · meteors · eclipse · alien worlds · constellations · night sky · telescope · spacecraft · space probes
- cosmosuniverse, galaxies, galaxy, stars, star
- systemsecosystems, ecosystem, transportation network, neural network, neural networks
- Alien Lifeextraterrestrial life, extraterrestrial intelligence, alien intelligence, first contact, biosignatures
- space phenomenastars, black hole, meteors, wormhole, dark energy
- cosmic matterstars, galaxies, dark matter, planets, cosmic dust
solar systemsgalaxies
Gravitationally bound stellar assemblies
superclusters · atoms · subatomic particles · the universe · intergalactic space
solar systemsEarth
Our world
earthbound · microcosm · inner world · ground level · subterranean