Solar System

See also: solar system and Solar system

English

Picture dictionary: Solar System

The sun

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Moon

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

comet

asteroid belt

orbit

Major bodies of the Solar System (not to scale)

Alternative forms

• Solar system, solar system

Pronunciation

• enPR: sō′lər sĭs′təm
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊl.ə ˌsɪs.təm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊ.lɚ ˌsɪs.təm/

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• Hyphenation: So‧lar Sys‧tem

Proper noun

the Solar System

2. (astronomy) The Sun and all the heavenly bodies that orbit around it, including the eight planets, their moons, the asteroids, and comets.
   • November 2, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson, 5:32 from the start, in The President: November 1968. MP902 (1280x720)‎, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum:

     This morning we are celebrating a beginning. A beginning of what we think is great promise. It's the opening of a new era in the history of manned space flight. We are ready to take that first great step out into the Solar System and onto the surface of the nearest of the many mysterious worlds that surround us in Space.

Hyponyms

• bowshock
• ecliptic plane
• heliosheath
• heliosphere
• inner Solar System
• outer Solar System
• solar wind
• termination shock

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:Solar System

Translations

the Sun and all the heavenly bodies that orbit around it

Afrikaans: Sonnestelsel Arabic: مَنْظُومَة شَمْسِيَّة f (manẓūma šamsiyya), مَجْمُوعَة شَمْسِيَّة f (majmūʕa šamsiyya), نِظَام شَمْسِيّ m (niẓām šamsiyy) Armenian: Արեգակնային համակարգ (Aregaknayin hamakarg) Assamese: সৌৰজগত m (xourzogot) Azerbaijani: Günəş sistemi Bashkir: Ҡояш системаһы (Qoyaş sistemahı) Basque: eguzki-sistema (eu) Belarusian: Со́нечная сістэ́ма f (Sónječnaja sistéma) Bengali: সৌরজগৎ (bn) (śōurjogoto) Breton: koskoriad an Heol m Bulgarian: Слъ́нчева систе́ма f (Slǎ́nčeva sistéma) Burmese: နေအဖွဲ့အစည်း (nea.hpwai.a.cany:), နေစကြဝဠာ (neca.kra.wa.la) Buryat: Наранай аймаг (Naranaj ajmag) Catalan: sistema solar m Chechen: Маьлхан система (Mälxan sistema) Cherokee: ᏅᏓ ᎠᎴ ᏚᏓᏕᏫᏍᏛ (nvda ale dudadewisdv) Chinese: Cantonese: 太陽系 / 太阳系 (taai3 joeng4 hai6) Mandarin: 太陽系 / 太阳系 (zh) (Tàiyángxì) Chuvash: Хӗвел системи (Hĕvel s̬istemi) Czech: sluneční soustava (cs) f Danish: solsystem (da) n Dhivehi: އިރަވީ ނިޒާމު (iravī nizāmu) Dutch: zonnestelsel (nl) n Esperanto: sunsistemo (eo) Estonian: Päikesesüsteem Finnish: Aurinkokunta (fi) French: système solaire (fr) m Galician: sistema solar Georgian: მზის სისტემა (mzis sisṭema) German: Sonnensystem (de) n Greek: ηλιακό σύστημα (el) n (iliakó sýstima) Gujarati: સૂર્યમંડળ n (sūryamaṇḍaḷ) Haitian Creole: sistèm solè Hebrew: מַעֲרֶכֶת הַשֶׁמֶשׁ (he) f (ma'arékhet ha-shémesh) (definite) Hindi: सौरमंडल m (saurmaṇḍal), सूर्यमंडल (hi) m (sūryamaṇḍal) Hungarian: Naprendszer (hu) Icelandic: sólkerfi (is) n Ido: sunala sistemo (io) Indonesian: Tata Surya Irish: an Grianchóras (ga) m Italian: sistema solare (it) m Japanese: 太陽系 (ja) (たいようけい, Taiyōkei) Kabuverdianu: sistema solar, sistima solar Karachay-Balkar: Кюн система (Kün sistema) Kazakh: Күн жүйесі (Kün jüiesı) Khmer: ប្រព័ន្ធព្រះអាទិត្យ (prɑpŏən prĕəh ʼaatɨt) Korean: 태양계(太陽系) (ko) (Taeyanggye) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: pergala rojê (ku) f, sîstema rojê (ku) f Kyrgyz: Күн системасы (Kün sisteması) Lao: ລະບົບສຸລິຍະ (lo) (la bop su li nya) Latvian: saules sistēma f Lithuanian: Saulės sistema (lt) f Macedonian: со́нчев си́стем m (sónčev sístem), Сончев Систем m (Sončev Sistem) Malay: sistem suria Malayalam: സൗരയൂഥം (saurayūthaṁ) Maori: whānau a Tamanuiterā (literally “extended family of Sun”) Mongolian: Cyrillic: Нарны аймаг (Narny ajmag) Mongolian: ᠨᠠᠷᠠᠨ ᠤ᠋ ᠠᠢᠢᠮᠠᠭ (naran u aiimag) Navajo: Yágháhookáán biiʼ hólónígíí Northern Sami: Beaivvášgoddi Norwegian: Bokmål: solsystem (no) n Nynorsk: solsystem n Ossetian: Хуры системӕ (Xury sistemæ) Persian: Iranian Persian: مَنْظومِهٔ شَمْسی (manzume-ye šamsi), سامانِهٔ خورْشیدی (sâmâne-ye xoršidi) Polish: Układ Słoneczny (pl) m inan, System Słoneczny m inan Portuguese: sistema solar (pt) m Romanian: sistem solar n Russian: Со́лнечная систе́ма (ru) f (Sólnečnaja sistéma) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Сунчев систем m Roman: Sunčev sistem m Sindhi: شَمسِي سِرِشتو (sd) m (šamsī sirištow) Sinhalese: සෞරග්‍රහ මණ්ඩලය (si) (sauragraha maṇḍalaya) Slovak: slnečná sústava f Slovene: sončni sistem m Southern Altai: Кӱнниҥ системазы (Künniŋ sistemazï) Spanish: sistema solar (es) m Swedish: solsystem (sv) n Tagalog: Sistemang Solar, Kaayusang Adlaw, Kabuntalaang Adlaw Tajik: Системаи офтобӣ (Sistema-yi oftobi), Манзумаи офтобӣ (Manzuma-yi oftobi), Манзумаи шамсӣ (Manzuma-yi šamsi) Tamil: சூரியக் குடும்பம் (ta) (cūriyak kuṭumpam), கதிரவ அமைப்பு (katirava amaippu) Tatar: Кояш системасы (Qoyaş sisteması) Telugu: సౌర కుటుంబం (saura kuṭumbaṁ) Thai: ระบบสุริยะ (th) (rá-bòp-sù-rí-yá) Tibetan: ཉི་མའི་ཁྱིམ་རྒྱུད (nyi ma'i khyim rgyud) Tulu: ಸೌರಮಂಡಲ m (sauramaṇḍala) Turkish: Güneş Sistemi (tr) Turkmen: Gün ulgamy Ukrainian: Со́нячна систе́ма f (Sónjačna systéma) Urdu: نِظامِ شَمْسی (ur) f (nizām-i śamsī) Uyghur: قۇياش سىستېمىسى (quyash sistëmisi) Uzbek: Quyosh tizimi, Quyosh sistemasi (rare) Vietnamese: hệ Mặt Trời (vi), Thái Dương hệ Volapük: solasit (vo) Welsh: Cysawd yr Haul Yakut: Күн системата (Kün sistemata) Yiddish: זון־סיסטעם f (zun-sistem) Yoruba: Sístẹ̀mù Òòrùn Zazaki: Sistemê Roci (Southern Zazaki) Zulu: Uzungezohlelo lweLanga class 1a/1a

Further reading

• Solar System on Wikipedia.Wikipedia