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Each planet takes its own time to complete its orbit, and if you could hover for centuries high above the Sun's north pole, (and had a REALLY big telescope) you could see the planets moving like the hands of a clock. Only in this case, a clock with eight hands, all moving at different speeds. Imagine a clock with hands for seconds, minutes and hours, but also hands for days, months, years, and decades.
You would see that every month or so two of the hands would line up, and occasionally three hands would, but usually they would all be pointing in different directions.
Right now, Mars and Jupiter are almost directly on the other side of the Sun from Earth, while Venus is off to one side while Saturn is off to the other side.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoYes and no. If there are night and day cycles on a planet (from orbiting their star and/or from the planet's rotation), then there is a sunset, but unlike Earth's magnificent sunset, most planets do not have an atmosphere, and therefore don't have the display of extraordinarily beautiful colors like we get in our dusk skies.
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Does the earth and other planets revolve around the sun?
yes, the earth and other planets revolve around the sun
The sun and all of the planets and other bodies that travel around it?
The sun and all of the planets and other bodies that travel around it?
What is called the lazy planet?
Uranus, because unlike the other planets whose equators are more or less oriented towards the Sun, it orbits the Sun on its side.
Why are some planets referred to as outer planets?
The planets in the solar system can be sorted to two types: inner planets that are the four closer planets to the Sun, which are rocky and small. And outer planets which are the four other planets which are gaseous and very large.
Why do all the planets orbit the sun?
Not all the planets orbit the sun - other stars have planets too. But all the planets in our solar system, which is the system of our sun, revolve around the sun; otherwise they would be in other solar systems. All the planets we can see with our naked eye orbit the sun, since the planets orbiting the sun are the only ones close enough to earth to see without a telescope.
What are the names of planets on either side of the earth?
venus on the sun's side and mars on the other side that is far from the sun.
What side the sun always illuminate?
The Sun is a burning ball of gases at the center of our solar system. It does not have a particular side that is illuminated. The Sun is the source of illumination for the other planets in the solar system.
What is the distances between the sun and the other planets in the solar system?
The difference is that the sun is a star, the other planets are just planets
Are there planets on the far side of the sun?
We revolve around the Sun. There are only these known planets in our Solar System.
What is tilted with respect to the sun and the orbits of other planets?
Planet Uranus, it is tilted on its side by 98 degrees.
Why do planets in your solar system revolve around the sun and not other planets?
the sun's gravity
Does the earth and other planets revolve around the sun?
yes, the earth and other planets revolve around the sun
Do the planets line up all on one side of the sun?
No. The planets all orbit the sun at different rates. In rare instance they roughly line up, but not on any particular side of the sun.
What planet is tilted with respect to the sun and orbits of other planets?
Planet Uranus, it is tilted on its side by 98 degrees.
How is uranus different than the other planets?
It orbits the sun on its side and so appears to be rolling along its orbit.
How is the sun different then the other planets?
The Sun is a star.
Why is the sun bigger than the other planets?
the sun is bigger than any other planets because millions of years ago meteorites smashed together to make the sun and to any other planets that did not happen
