Our World: What is a Solar System?
Find out why one amateur astronomer created an amazing graphic of the 88 largest objects in our solar system. Learn just what makes up a solar system and find out how we classify the thousands of objects in our own solar system. Since the production of this video New Horizons has reached, and is providing information on, the Kuiper Belt.
Background Information
Grades K through 5
Grades K through 12
- Space Telescope Science Institute Amazing Space
- NASA Solar System Exploration
- NASA Our Solar System Lithograph Set
Activities
Grades K through 5
- NASA Solar System Exploration -- Planets
- NISE Network Exploring the Solar System: Pocket Solar System
Grades K through 8
- NASA Space Place Solar System
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The Scale of Things
Grades K through 12
Mathematics
Grades K through 5
- Rice Space Institute Planet Math
- SpaceMath@NASA Year of the Solar System Math Guide