Who: Neil deGrasse Tyson What: “An Astrophysicist Goes to the Movies, Part II” When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 5 Where: Luther Burbank Center, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa Tickets: $58 ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.

A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in our solar system. This happened about 4½ billion years ago.. Then the planets began to emerge, as the billions of particles ...

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Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to ...

For years, astronomers have been searching for a ninth planet in our solar system (after giving Pluto the old heave-ho and demoting it to a dwarf planet) and now researchers say they’ve found a ...

5. Many people believe that there are 9 planets orbiting the Sun in the Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. However, according to science, there are only 8 ...

Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system due to its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, trapping heat as part of a runaway greenhouse effect. To stream 13News Now on your phone, you need the ...

See the planets in order. The solar system has eight planets. Moving out from the sun in order are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.