By Sakshi Sah
Published Oct 23, 2024

Hindustan Times
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8 jaw-dropping photos that show the true size of our solar system

The solar system is massive beyond imagination.

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These photos, taken by NASA, show just how big it really is.

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The Sun is so large that over a million Earths could fit inside it. This giant ball of gas powers our entire solar system.

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Mercury, the smallest planet, is about the size of the Moon. Despite being closest to the Sun, it’s smaller than many think.

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A photo from NASA shows the Earth and the Moon together. Even though they seem close, the distance between them is vast.

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Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. You could fit over 1,300 Earths inside this gas giant.

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Saturn’s rings look thin from a distance, but they’re actually made up of millions of ice and rock particles, stretching over 2,82,000 km wide.

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Neptune is 30 times farther from the Sun than Earth. NASA’s Voyager 2 took the first close-up photos of this far-off planet.

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NASA’s Voyager 1 is the farthest spacecraft from Earth, over 14 billion miles away, showing just how expansive our solar system is.

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Beyond the planets is the Oort Cloud, a huge area filled with icy objects that might extend halfway to the closest star.

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