What is beyond the solar system?

Answer 1

Beyond Neptune - and including Pluto - is the Kupier Belt, a mix of icy asteroids and planetoids left over from the formation of the Solar System. Pluto, traditionally the ninth planet, is now thought of as a large member of the Kuiper Belt. Scientists have found a dwarf planet in this belt originally labelled 2003UB313, now called Eris, which is larger than Pluto. It was originally nicknamed Xena, and its moon was originally nicknamed Gabrielle after Xena's sidekick in the TV series. It's now called Dysnomia - after the Greek goddess of lawlessness. (See, they couldn't resist putting a Xena reference in after all!) The Kuiper Belt extends from Neptune's orbit to about 100AU from the Sun (an AU being an astronomical unit, the distance from Earth to the Sun), which means that most of the Kuiper Belt lies beyond Pluto.

At the moment Eris is the farthest thing known from the Sun, as its eccentric orbit takes it far beyond the main Kuiper Belt. An object discovered in 2004, Sedna, is a little closer and around half the size of Pluto. However, Sedna's orbit is extremely elliptical, and it stretches out for hundreds and hundreds of AU from the Sun - it's much further out than the Kuiper Belt, and at the moment, there's no known population of objects to which Sedna belongs, so it's quite a mysterious object!

There also is the Oort Cloud, where scientists speculate that comets come from - there are thousands if not millions of comets in the Oort Cloud at the far edges of our Solar system. The Oort Cloud is very far out and has never actually been observed, but its existence can be inferred from the orbits of long-period comets. The Oort Cloud is believed to extend out to around 1 light year from the Sun, or a quarter of the way to the nearest star.

Answer 2

Beyond Uranus is the planets neptune and Pluto and charon(Pluto's moon).There Is also a planet or something named pluton but I don't know what it is.There are also many different galaxies beyond uranus.

Answer 3

There are quite a few things beyond the major planets in our system. The most immediate thing is the Kuiper Belt. However, there are minor planets throughout the Kuiper Belt (which is a large asteroid belt containing several dwarf planets). The outermost planet orbiting Sol is the dwarf planet Sedna. Beyond it, the only known objects are the Oort Cloud (a theoretical sphere of asteroids) and its contents. (There is also a theorized red dwarf star dubbed "Nemesis.")

Outside of our own solar system, there are billions of other galaxies and lone objects.

Answer 4

Beyond the solar system is interstellar space where you will find other stars, gas, and dust in the galaxy.

Answer 5

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all further from the sun than Jupiter is. Pluto is also further away than Jupiter. For a virtual tour of the planets see the related link.

Answer 6

The Kuiper Belt is the next part of the Solar System after Neptune.

Answer 7

Eris and a lot!

Answer 8

The Universe minus the Earth.

Answer 9

Neptune

Answer 10

Planet beyond soul's grasp