How do Mercury look?

Answer 1

The orbit of the Moon around the Earth is elliptical. An ellipse is a flattened circle, much like an oval. The Moon takes just under a month to revolve around the Earth. Looking down on the Earth above the North Pole, the Moon revolves counterclockwise around the Earth, which is the same direction that the Earth rotates on its axis.
An ellipse. Very close to a circle though.
Unlike many other moons, the Earth's moon follows an elliptical orbit.

Answer 2

Technically, the shape of the earth's orbit is an ellipse. But its eccentricity is so small, (it's so close to being a true circle), that if you saw it from out in space somewhere and didn't carefully measure it, you'd say it's a circle.

Answer 3

The Earth orbits the sun because the Sun has a larger mass than the Earth giving the sun a greater gravitational pull. It is also the same for the moon. The moon orbits the Earth because the Earth has a greater mass giving it greater gravitational pull than the moon. ( I hope you understood that :) )

Answer 4

With a telescope at night on special nights you might be able to see some of the planets. The sun moon and earth are part of the solar system, of course. Many planets in the solar system are visible to the unaided eye, like Venus, Mars and Jupiter. There are a few minor planets like Pluto and Ceres. The fixed stars of the night sky are way beyond our solar system, and many of those stars have systems of their own. It is not possible to see the entire solar system all at once, unless we are looking at collected photographs or other representations of it. And there are countless small, un-named masses orbiting the sun that we will never visually witness.

Answer 5

There are no photographs of the solar system of course, because we have never been that far out. And if we were, a photograph wouldn't be particularly useful.

See related link for a pictorial.

Answer 6

The solar system looks like an average star in an average part of a larger-than-

average galaxy, surrounded by an average volume of mostly-empty space, with

a typical collection of random rocks, gas, and dust in orbit around it, left over from

the typical processes that formed the star, and from the typical gravitational

accumulation of random junk that typically floats in random trajectories past

an average star in the course of a few billion years.

Answer 7

They are elliptical, varying in distance from the Sun. Most planets orbit within the same plane, or disc-shaped region extending around the sun. The exceptions are the dwarf planet Pluto and other Kuiper Belt objects, which have elongated and tilted orbits.

Answer 8

There's a medium sized star at the center, and some rocks and dust orbiting the star. It's mostly empty space. Some of the bigger rocks and grains of dust are called "planets", and one of them is called Earth. We think it's important, because we live on it.

Answer 9

the earth moves around the sun in elliptical orbits ( may be you call them .. elongated circles)... like moon does to earth, earth too comes twice as close to sun than any other time. thanks

Answer 10

The orbit shaped like an oblong.

It is used for the planets to revolved around the sun.^_^