The Solar System Overview

The Solar System

• The Oort Cloud is a distant, spherical shell of icy bodies surrounding the solar system.
• The boundary of the Sun's gravitational influence is the heliopause, which marks the edge of the heliosphere.
• The solar system formed through the process of gravitational collapse of a giant molecular cloud.
• The heliosphere is a region of space influenced by the Sun, comprising the solar wind, the magnetosphere, and the heliopause.

Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

• The Kuiper Belt lies past Neptune's orbit in our solar system, a region of icy bodies and other small celestial objects.

Planets and Moons

• Jupiter has moons resembling mini versions of our solar system.
• The planets of our solar system and many asteroids hold a total of 193 known moons in their orbits.

Space Exploration

• Over 40 robotic spacecraft from many nations have explored destinations beyond Earth's orbit.
• Voyager 1 is the only spacecraft to have left our solar system as of now.

Galactic Motion

• Our solar system takes approximately 225-250 million years to complete one orbit around the galactic center.
• The name of our planetary system is the Solar System.
• The Latin word for Sun is Sol.

Notable Spacecraft

• Voyager 1 is the name of the spacecraft that has left our solar system.