The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. It formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region...

There is evidence that the formation of the Solar System began about 4.6 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular...

concentrated solar power. Solar panels use the photovoltaic effect to convert light into an electric current. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses...

A photovoltaic system, also called a PV system or solar power system, is an electric power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics...

Solar System belts are asteroid and comet belts that orbit the Sun in the Solar System in interplanetary space. The Solar System belts' size and placement...

Sedna Termination Shock The Sweden Solar System is the world's largest permanent scale model of the Solar System. The Sun is represented by the Avicii...

This article includes a list of the most massive known objects of the Solar System and partial lists of smaller objects by observed mean radius. These lists...

the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. This is called passive solar design because, unlike active solar heating systems, it does not involve the...

An exoplanet or extrasolar planet is a planet outside the Solar System. The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet was in 1992 around a pulsar, and...

Of the Solar System's eight planets and its nine most likely dwarf planets, six planets and seven dwarf planets are known to be orbited by at least 430...

Solar System models, especially mechanical models, called orreries, that illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the...

capacity per person. There were 122 million solar hot water systems in operation at the end of 2022. Records of solar collectors in the United States date to...

Solar System is a 2024 documentary TV mini series produced by the BBC and narrated by Brian Cox. The first episode was shown on BBC Two on 7 October 2024...

photovoltaic system, alternately called a "solar system" a planetary system, sometimes referred to as a "solar system" The Solar System (film), a 2017...

The following is a list of Solar System objects by orbit, ordered by increasing distance from the Sun. Most named objects in this list have a diameter...

The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion...

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the corona. This plasma mostly consists of electrons...

is a list of most likely gravitationally rounded objects (GRO) of the Solar System, which are objects that have a rounded, ellipsoidal shape due to their...

This is a list of the tallest mountains in the Solar System. This list includes peaks on all celestial bodies where significant mountains have been detected...

A small Solar System body (SSSB) is an object in the Solar System that is neither a planet, a dwarf planet, nor a natural satellite. The term was first...

This is a timeline of Solar System exploration ordering events in the exploration of the Solar System by date of spacecraft launch. It includes: All spacecraft...

Space-based solar power (SBSP or SSP) is the concept of collecting solar power in outer space with solar power satellites (SPS) and distributing it to...

photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight directly into electricity, solar thermal systems convert it into heat. They use mirrors or lenses to concentrate...

include the use of photovoltaic systems, concentrated solar power, and solar water heating to harness the energy. Passive solar techniques include designing...

Discovery and exploration of the Solar System is observation, visitation, and increase in knowledge and understanding of Earth's "cosmic neighborhood"...

A rooftop solar power system, or rooftop PV system, is a photovoltaic (PV) system that has its electricity-generating solar panels mounted on the rooftop...

The stability of the Solar System is a subject of much inquiry in astronomy. Though the planets have historically been stable as observed, and will be...

a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself. The Solar System has eight planets by the most restrictive definition of the term: the...

A hypothetical Solar System object is a planet, natural satellite, subsatellite or similar body in the Solar System whose existence is not known, but has...

The Solar cycle, also known as the solar magnetic activity cycle, sunspot cycle, or Schwabe cycle, is a periodic 11-year change in the Sun's activity measured...