4. Also known as terrestrial planets , telluric
planets and rocky planets.
These planets are made from rocks.
This includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.
5. Mercury is the smallest and
innermost planet in the Solar System.
Its orbit around the Sun takes 87.97 days, the
shortest of all the planets in the Solar System.
6. Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
It is named after the Roman goddess of love
and beauty.
As the second-brightest natural object in the
night sky after the Moon.
7. Earth is the third planet from the Sun and is
the largest of the terrestrial planets.
The Earth is the only planet in our solar
system not to be named after a Greek god.
8. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the
second-smallest planet in the Solar System
after Mercury.
9. These planets are mostly made up of gas.
They are divided into two categories;
Gas giants.
Ice giants.
This includes Jupiter , Saturn , Uranus ,
Neptune.
10. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar
system. Fittingly, it was named after the king of
the gods in Roman mythology.
11. Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the
second-largest planet in the solar system.
12. Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It
has the third-largest planetary radius and
fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar
system.
13. Neptune is the fourth largest and the
farthest planet of the Solar System with the
most powerful wind speeds out of all
the planets.
14. Nebulas are made by dust particles of a dead
star.
The dust particles colide with each other to
form new stars.
Eg . Butterfly nebula, helix nebula,cats eye
nebula.
15. NGC 6302, also called the Bug Nebula
or Butterfly Nebula, is a bipolar planetary
nebula in the constellation Scorpius.
16. The Helix is a planetary nebula, the glowing
gaseous envelope expelled by a dying, sun-like
star.
17. The Cat's Eye Nebula or NGC 6543, is a
planetary nebula in the northern constellation
of Draco, discovered by William Herschel on
February 15, 1786.
