Now this is fun. Kurzgesagt made a fantastic animation video detailing our solar system. Perfect for anyone who’s space curious (and that should be everyone), perfect to sit down and show your ...

Loving this fantastic introduction to our local star system, created by the folks at Kurzgesagt. It’s clear, clean, concise – and beautifully animated, to boot. The solar system – well known ...

In the above animation, the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn are shown orbiting the barycentre of our solar system. The barycentre is the centre of mass of two or more orbiting bodies and is the point in ...

Planetary scientist James O'Donoghue created an animation that shows our solar system's planets rotating in a single globe The globe shows slices of the best parts of each planet The animation ...

At this very moment, Earth and all other planets in our solar system are careening around ... Related stories The animation above does not show how many orbits the planets are completing relative ...

Most models of the solar system aren't completely accurate, and there's a good reason for that. It's not laziness or scientific misunderstanding - an accurate, to-scale portrayal of the solar ...

In our solar system, that point rarely lines up with the center of the sun. To demonstrate this, O'Donoghue created the animation below, which shows how the sun, Saturn, and Jupiter play tug-of ...