Why Do All Planets Move The Same Direction Around The Sun?
734At school, we're taught that all the planets in the solar system orbit the Sun in a plane, as if they were on a vast and invisible cloth that supports them all. But do the planets orbit around the Sun in the same plane? Why do they all orbit in the same direction? And could a planet orbit in the opposite direction to all the others? We will answer all those questions in this video, so stay with us to find out!
The Ecliptic
When we see the planets from Earth, they're always within an ecliptic zone. This is an imaginary line that the Sun and the planets follow in the sky.
When the first astronomers in history began observing the movements of the planets, they realized that the planets always followed a well-defined path through the ecliptic and that no known planet was outside this region. However, with the advancement of astronomical observation and the invention of telescopes and observatories, astronomers realized that although all the planets were always in the same region of the sky, they were sometimes on different planes.
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Credits: Ron Miller, Mark A. Garlick / MarkGarlick.com ,Elon Musk/SpaceX/ Flickr
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00:00 Intro
00:34 The Ecliptic
02:47 Do all the planets really orbit the sun in the same plane and direction?
04:43 Why the planets have these orbits?
7:00 Do comets and asteroids also orbit in the same plane and direction?
10:17 Could a planet orbit in a different direction from the others?
11:28 Is there a planet with that feature?
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