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Solar System

Also known as planetary house, sun system, The Solar System

the Sun, its planets and their moons

OverviewAI-generated

The Solar System is a planetary system that includes the Sun, the outer Solar System, the asteroid belt, and the Oort cloud. It is located in the Orion Arm and is part of the Local Interstellar Cloud and the Milky Way. The system has a boundary defined by the Oort cloud and the heliopause. Its parent astronomical body is Sagittarius A*.

The Solar System contains inner planets, outer planets, small Solar System bodies, and a circumstellar disk. It has a diameter of 79 and a mass of 1.0014. One use of the Solar System is the colonization of the solar system. It is described by the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition. The subject is maintained by WikiProject Solar System, WikiProject Astronomical objects, and WikiProject Astronomy.

Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Research

23,371 papers

Origin of life-forming volatile elements in the inner Solar System.ReviewNature · 2022Broadley MW, Bekaert DV, Piani L et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05276-x
Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System.ReviewTrends in microbiology · 2022Coleine C, Delgado-Baquerizo MDOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2022.04.002
The early solar system.ReviewOrigins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 1997Gaffey MJ
The Search for Chiral Asymmetry as a Potential Biosignature in our Solar System.ReviewChemical reviews · 2020Glavin DP, Burton AS, Elsila JE et al.DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00474
Solar system: lethal billiards.Nature · 2007Claeys P, Goderis SDOI: 10.1038/449030a
From Materials to Devices: Rationally Designing Solar Steam System for Advanced Applications.ReviewSmall methods · 2022Huang Z, Liu Y, Li S et al.DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202200835
Methane clathrates in the solar system.ReviewAstrobiology · 2015Mousis O, Chassefière E, Holm NG et al.DOI: 10.1089/ast.2014.1189
Comparative study of methods for detecting extraterrestrial life in exploration mission of Mars and the solar system.ReviewLife sciences in space research · 2022Enya K, Yamagishi A, Kobayashi K et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.lssr.2022.07.001

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: planetary system
Part of: Local Interstellar Cloud
Location: Orion Arm
Parent body: Sagittarius A*
Diameter: 0.00124861704
Mass: 1.0014
Image: Solar System true color.jpg
Has use: colonization of the solar system
Has parts of class: dwarf planet

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Commons category: Solar System
topic's main category: Category:Solar System
Commons gallery: Solar System
topic has template: Template:Solar System sidebar
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
has boundary: heliopause
topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Solar System
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Astronomy

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Encyclopedic overview

The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the masses that orbit it, most prominently its eight planets, of which Earth is one. The system formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region of a molecular cloud collapsed, creating the Sun and a protoplanetary disc from which the orbiting bodies assembled.

The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the Solar System's total mass. Inside the Sun's core, hydrogen is fused into helium, releasing energy that is emitted through the Sun's photosphere. This creates the heliosphere and a decreasing temperature gradient across the Solar System.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Solar System” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.