They reflect sunlight - just like the moon. They are just too far away to see the detail (light and dark spots) with the naked eye so it all runs together. If you look through a telescope, you can tell the difference right away.
The "apparent" reverse or backwards motion of a planet as observed from Earth. The innermost planets appear to have a retrograde motion when viewed from Earth.
Viewed from the north, yes, viewed from the south, No. All the planets revolve counterclockwise as seen from the Sun's North Pole.
Rainbows are an optical illusion, they are not "real". You cannot view them from above; they will always appear the way they appear from the ground.
Cumulonimbus clouds are very tall and so block out quite a bit of sunlight, causing them to appear dark when viewed from below.
Most of the planets in our solar system rotate on their axis from west to east; i.e., counter-clockwise as seen by an observer looking down from high above the Earth's north pole. Hence an observer near the equator of the earth, for example, would see the sun rise in the east, and later set in the west. This is the same direction in which they orbit the sun. The exceptions are Venus which rotates the opposite direction, and Uranus which rotates almost "on its side" (axis tilt of about 90 degrees).
All planets except Mercury can appear 50 degrees from the Sun.
No. All the planets in our solar system are prograde. At times it can appear retrograde when viewed from earth as an affect of our relative speed during certain times of our orbit.
All planets in our Solar System, viewed from above our North Pole, revolve around the Sun in an anti clockwise direction.
the two planets that can be viewed from earth are Mercury and venus.
The "apparent" reverse or backwards motion of a planet as observed from Earth. The innermost planets appear to have a retrograde motion when viewed from Earth.
Stars would appear much like our Sun when viewed at closer range and most would have planets and other objects orbiting them.
Viewed from Earth, Venus is the brightest planet.
Almost all planets in the Solar system orbit the sun anti-clockwise when viewed from the northern side, with the exception of Venus, which orbits anti-clockwise. This is due to the initial conditions of the gas cloud that was collapsing into the planets while our Star system was just forming.
I think you mean, planetary nebula. They are balls of gas and plasma. The name originated with their discovery in the 1700s because of they looked similar to planets when viewed through small telescopes. They are not related to the planets of the solar system.
Mercury is the most unlikely to be viewed because of its proximity to the sun, but it can be viewed with special equipment, like a light filter. All outer planets can be viewed with a telescope depending on the planets position relative to Earth.
Every planet except Venus and Uranus in our solar system rotates counterclockwise as viewed from above the North Pole of the planet. Venus has a slow clockwise rotation and Uranus rotates on its side.
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