Solar Model
The solar system is the Sun and everything that circles it: eight planets, their moons, and many asteroids and comets.
This picture is a cloud of paint. You can , , , , , , and .
Paint with your finger. It stays on these splats, wherever they go next.
Your paint is on this cloud. to see the sharp picture.
- Shelf
- Space
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- Own work (made in the page)
How to play
Tap to line up the planets and watch Mercury cross the Sun.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Line up the planets | Tap | ||
| Line up | Button |
About it
The solar system is the Sun and everything that circles it: eight planets, their moons, and many asteroids and comets. All the planets go around the Sun the same way, in orbits that lie nearly in one flat plane. The inner planets go around fastest: Mercury takes 88 days, Neptune about 165 years.
This is a model, not to scale: sizes and distances are squeezed so no two planets touch. Tap it and every planet swings into one row. The model tips until you look along its plane, and Mercury passes in front of the Sun as a small dark dot, which is called a transit. Then the planets spread out again. Real transits of Mercury happen about 13 times a century.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 32,536 at Low, and up to 640,000 at Max
Sources and credits
Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.
Share it
This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.
https://splashery.app/play/?toy=solar-system
<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="solar-system"></splashery-toy>
Nearby
Solar SystemThe Sun, the eight planets, six big moons, four famous comets and 4,000 real asteroids, each where its real orbit puts it on the date you pick, from 1800 to 2050.
Real Star SystemsReal planets round other stars, from the NASA Exoplanet Archive: TRAPPIST-1, a cool red dwarf 40 light-years away with seven rocky planets, all closer to it than Mercury is to the Sun; TOI-178, whose six planets go round in a chain of near-simple ratios; and 55 Cancri, with a planet whose year is shorter than a day.
Powers of TenEvery step of the zoom is ten times the last: the label names the power of ten, what you see and its size, and where the picture or data comes from, and the bar shows a round length at that scale.
SLS RocketThe Space Launch System, NASA's rocket for the Artemis missions back to the Moon, as splats from NASA's 3D model, colored as it flew on Artemis I in November 2022.