NASA Discoveries

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Here at NASA Discoveries, our goal is to make researching about our solar system an easy and stress free experience.

There are many different pages dedicated to our solar system and the objects within it on the Nasa.gov website. You can further explore each planet as well as go beyond that and look into topics such as the dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt. However, the information is spread across the website and to get there you may first have to sort through pages that aren’t related to the topic you are looking for at all. In order to aid those looking for quick and easy access to NASA’s vast knowledge on our solar system, I thought it would be best to collect all the information NASA provides and display it on a more organized and smaller website that focuses solely on the solar system.

We here at Nasa Discovieries gear our content towards high school students.This target audience is more or less looking for information on the topic that is not only on a website that is easy to navigate but is also reliable, easy to comprehend, and educational. The information on nasadiscoveries.org provides this in an easy to navigate and well-organized layout, that will save high school students the trouble of sorting through the large amounts of data and information on the Nasa.gov website.

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Overview

A solar system is a star and all of the objects that travel around it — planets, moons, asteroids, comets and meteoroids. Most stars host their own planets, so there are likely tens of billions of other solar systems in the Milky Way galaxy alone...

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Passed Neptune

The Kuiper Belt is a disc-shaped region beyond Neptune that extends from about 30 to 55 astronomical units (compared to Earth which is one astronomical unit, or AU, from the sun). This distant region is probably populated with...

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Sun and Planets

The sun is a yellow dwarf star, a hot ball of glowing gases at the heart of our solar system made of hydrogen and helium. Its influence extends far beyond the orbits of distant Neptune and Pluto. Without the sun's intense energy and heat...

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Solar System History

Our solar system formed about 4.5 billion years ago from a dense cloud of interstellar gas and dust. The cloud collapsed, possibly due to the shockwave of a nearby exploding star, called a supernova. When this dust cloud collapsed...

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Explore the Planets

Mercury

Mercury

Venus

Venus

Earth

Earth

Mars

Mars

Jupiter

Jupiter

Saturn

Saturn

Uranus

Uranus

Neptune

Neptune