Solar System Illustrations

Digital artwork depicting the solar system, featuring the sun and its planets. Styles vary from detailed scientific posters to artistic renderings.

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Solar system, computer artwork.

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Solar system, computer artwork.

STEREO in the Lagrange Points

Illustration of the Sun's Habitable Zone

This artist's concept shows NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft in a new region at the edge of our solar system where the amount of high-energy particles diffusing into our solar system from outside has increased.

The Distribution of Planetary Ions near Mercury

This graphic shows a new radiation zone surrounding Jupiter, located just above the atmosphere near the equator, that has been discovered by NASA's Juno mission. The new radiation zone is depicted here as a glowing blue area around the planet's middle. This radiation zone includes energetic hydrogen, oxygen and sulfur ions moving at close to the speed of light (referred to as relativistic speeds). It resides inside Jupiter's previously known radiation belts. The zone was identified by the mission's Jupiter Energetic Particle Detector Instrument (JEDI), enabled by Juno's unique close approach to the planet during the spacecraft's science flybys (2,100 miles or 3,400 kilometers from the cloud tops). Juno scientists believe the particles creating this region of intense radiation are derived from energetic neutral atoms -- that is, fast-moving atoms without an electric charge -- coming from the tenuous gas around Jupiter's moons Io and Europa. The neutral atoms then become ions -- atoms wi

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Our solar system features eight planets, seen in this artists diagram. This representation is intentionally fanciful, as the planets are depicted far closer together than they really are.

Infographic that describes the phenomena of eclipses, and the different types of solar and lunar eclipses. QuarkXPress (.qxp); Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4960x3188.

Digital Illustration of the Size and Orbit of the Newly Discovered Tenth Planet of Our Solar System

The top graph consists of infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. It tells astronomers that a distant planet, called Upsilon Andromedae b, always has a giant hot spot on the side that faces the star, while the other side is cold and dark.

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Spring tides and neap tides.

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Solar System of our Planets Vector Illustration

Two giant swaths of radiation, known as the Van Allen Belts, surrounding Earth were discovered in 1958. In 2012, observations from the Van Allen Probes showed that a third belt can sometimes appear. The radiation is shown here in yellow, with green representing the spaces between the belts.

This size and scale of the Kepler-452 system compared alongside the Kepler-186 system and the solar system. Kepler-186 is a miniature solar system that would fit entirely inside the orbit of Mercury.

This diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-62, a five-planet system about 1,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. At seven billion years old, the star is somewhat older than the sun.

This artist's concept demonstrates how a dusty planet-forming disk can slow down a whirling young star, essentially saving the star from spinning itself to death. Evidence for this phenomenon comes from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Infographic about the Milky Way and the exoplanets. Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4960x3188.

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Diagram of solar system

Diagram of the orbits of the planets

This is an overhead view of NASA'S New Horizons full trajectory; the spacecraft has entered a hibernation phase on April 7 that will last until early September.

Techy Stuff 10 2004 Linda Braucht (20th C. American) Computer graphics

Aluminium atomic structure, computer illustration.

Infographic of the various layers of the Earth and the atmosphere. QuarkXPress (.qxp); Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4960x3188.

Infographic of the solar system: planets that comprise it, their orbits and more aspects. Adobe InDesign (.indd); 7086x9637.

This illustration shows a group of asteroids and their orbits around the sun, compared to the planets

Opportunity's Path

The unequal distribution of solar power. Perpendicular sunlight means more daylight hours and more heat, the more oblique fewer hours of light and less heat.

Infographic about planet Uranus, its characteristics, composition, orbit, moons and the spaces missions that have explored it. QuarkXPress (.qxp); Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4960x3188.

Earth and nuclear energy. Conceptual image of an Earth globe as an atomic nucleus, representing nuclear power and issues around the global environment...

Illustration showing the structure of a black hole. A black hole is formed when a sufficiently massive mass collapses under its own weight, forming a ...

The oldest light in the universe, called the cosmic microwave background, as observed by the Planck space telescope is shown in the oval sky map. An artist's concept of Planck is next to the map.

Infographic about space exploration, this is, about the unmanned space missions that have studied and continue studying space and its planets, from the scientific point of view. QuarkXPress (.qxp); Adobe InDesign (.indd); 6259x4015.

Artist's concept of the interaction of the solar wind (the supersonic outflow of electrically charged particles from the Sun) with Pluto's predominantly nitrogen atmosphere based on NASA's New Horizons' SWAP instrument.

This chart based on data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer illustrates how infrared is used to more accurately determine an asteroid's size; three asteroids of different sizes can look similar when viewed in visible-light.

Geocentric theory. Ptolemy.

Infographic about special space missions that have explored every planet of the Solar System. QuarkXPress (.qxp); 6259x4015.

A high content of hydrogen in Mars' southern polar region is apparent in this global map of high-energy neutrons measured by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

Infographic about space probes, especially the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which was launched to study planet Mars and prove if it has water. QuarkXPress (.qxp); Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4960x3188.

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Dwarf planets, illustration

The New Horizons spacecraft is about 300 million miles (483 million kilometers) from 2014 MU69, the Kuiper Belt object it will encounter on Jan. 1, 2019.

This frame from an artist's animation depicts how NASA's Curiosity rover will communicate with Earth during landing. As the rover descends to Mars, it will send out basic radio-frequency tones that go directly to Earth.

NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a police strobe light.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has lifted the cosmic veil to see an otherwise hidden newborn star, while detecting the presence of water and carbon dioxide ices, as well as organic molecules.

This image illustrates the principals of a technique called 'laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy,' which the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument onboard NASA's rover, Curiosity, will use on Mars.

3 superimposed orbits of periodic comets on the orbits of the outer planets of the solar system.

JunoCam imaged numerous storms in Jupiter's atmosphere on Juno's 25th close pass, in the region just north of Jupiter's equator. Amateurs and professional observers track these storms routinely to study the dynamics of Jupiter's atmosphere. Near the top of the image, two cyclones can be seen merging in the N3 jet stream. The next storm down is NN-WS-4 (the North North White Spot 4), rotating in an anticyclonic (clockwise rotation) direction. For scale this storm is about 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers) across, roughly the distance between Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Honolulu, Hawaii. The elongated brown storms are familiar cyclonic (counterclockwise rotation) features, called mini-barges. WS-a and WS-o are White Spots a and o, anticyclonic storms that have persisted for over a year, separated by the North Equatorial Belt (NEB) north (NEBn) cyclone. The NEDF is the dark formation on the south edge of the NEB. Latitudinal belts and zones are labeled on the right with the conventions used by the

Vector realistic, 3d set of solar system planets. Illustration of nine planets with an inscription on a dark blue background for teaching astronomy.

This set of images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows topography of the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta and a map of Vesta's gravity variations that have been adjusted to account for Vesta's shape.

An artist's concept illustrates the positions of the Voyager spacecraft in relation to structures formed around our Sun by the solar wind.

Mercury's Sodium Tail

In this image taken by NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft during its first week of mapping, soil enriched in hydrogen is indicated by the deep blue colors, which show a low intensity of epithermal neutrons.

Phases of the planet Venus in relation to Earth. Size variations are represented in proportion to the variations in apparent size.

Earth's internal structure, illustration

Mercury's Magnetic Field

Bromine and Chlorine Go Separate Ways

This diagram illustrates how astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope can capture the elusive spectra of hot-Jupiter planets. Spectra are an object's light spread apart into its basic components, or wavelengths.

View of Pluto, artists impression based on 2015 NASA image

Size of atmosphere compared to Florida, illustration

This plot of data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicates that a flat, spiral galaxy called NGC 3621 has a feeding, supermassive black hole lurking within it.

Pluto, NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003

Didactic illustration showing the magma chamber under the volcanoes of Yellowstone. The magma chamber contains magma (molten mineral matter made up of liquid matter, solid elements and gas). When the pressure of its gas increases, the magma goes up by chimneys to the surface forming the lava which becomes volcanic rock while cooling on the surface.

Mars - Water Ice Clouds

Relative sizes of Kepler habitable zone planets discovered as of 2013 April 18. Except for Earth, these are artists' renditions.

NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) acquired these images of the Earth using its visible and infrared cameras as it left the Earth.

This graph presents measured properties of the seven TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets (labeled b through h), showing how they stack up with one another as well as with Earth and the other inner rocky worlds in our own solar system. The relative sizes of the planets are indicated by the circles. All of the known TRAPPIST-1 planets are larger than Mars, with five of them within 15% of the diameter of Earth. The vertical axis shows the uncompressed densities of the planets. Density, calculated from a planet's mass and volume, is the first important step in understanding its composition. Uncompressed density takes into account that the larger a planet is, the more its own gravity will pack the planet's material together and increase its density. Uncompressed density, therefore, usually provides a better means of comparing the composition of planets. The plot shows that the uncompressed densities of the TRAPPIST-1 planets are similar to one another, suggesting they may have all have a similar composit

This diagram illustrates two similar star systems, HD 95086 and HR 8799. Evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has pointed to the presence of two dust belts in each system.

Infographic about the formation of the universe according to the Big Bang theory. QuarkXPress (.qxp); 6259x4015.

A new mission competing for selection under NASA's Discovery Program would explore Neptune's largest moon, Triton, which is potentially an ocean world with liquid water under its icy crust. Trident aims to answer the questions outlined in the graphic illustration above. The questions fall under Trident's three main goals. The first goal is to explore the factors that lead to a solar system body having the necessary ingredients including water to be habitable. A second goal is to explore vast, unseen lands. Most of what we know of the moon came from Voyager 2 data. But we've only seen 40% of the moon's surface; Trident would map most of the remainder. Trident's third major goal to understand how Triton's surface keeps renewing itself. The surface is remarkably young, geologically speaking (possibly only 10 million years old in a 4.6-billion-year-old solar system) and has almost no visible craters. The Trident team is one of four developing concept studies for new missions. Up to two

What color is Pluto The answer, revealed in the first maps made from NASA's New Horizons data, turns out to be shades of reddish brown.

A diagram depicting the relative sizes of the major moons of the solar system.

Eight Looks at the Jupiter Impact

This is a reconstructed view of Jupiter's northern lights through the filters of Juno's Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (UVS) instrument on Dec. 11, 2016, as the Juno spacecraft approached Jupiter, passed over its poles, and plunged towards the equator. Such measurements present a real challenge for the spacecraft's science instruments Juno flies over Jupiter's poles at 30 miles (50 kilometers) per second -- more than 100,000 miles per hour -- speeding past auroral forms in a matter of seconds.

Infographic on Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. Adobe InDesign (.indd); 4795x3543.

This map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the greatest precision yet by ESA's Planck mission. The ancient light, called the cosmic microwave background, was imprinted on the sky when the universe was 370,000 years old.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected a prebiotic, or potentially life-forming, molecule called hydrogen cyanide (HCN) in the planet-forming disks around yellow stars like our sun, but not in the disks around cooler, reddish stars.

Observations of infrared light from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope coming from asteroids provide a better estimate of their true sizes than visible-light measurements.

Types of orbits.

This near-true color, 'Pluto-centric' movie from NASA's New Horizons mission show Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, and the complex orbital dance of the two bodies, known as a double planet.

This diagram illustrates the locations of the star systems closest to the sun. The year when the distance to each system was determined is listed after the system's name.

First Magnetometer Measurements from Mercury Orbit

Io in Eclipse reveals High Temperature Hot Spots

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope set of images reveals a never-before-seen set of six comet-like tails radiating from a body in the asteroid belt, designated P/2013 P5. The asteroid was discovered as an unusually fuzzy-looking object with the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) survey telescope in Hawaii. The multiple tails were discovered in Hubble images taken on Sept. 10, 2013. When Hubble returned to the asteroid on Sept. 23, the asteroid's appearance had totally changed. It looked as if the entire structure had swung around. One interpretation is that the asteroid's rotation rate has been increased to the point where dust is falling off the surface and escaping into space where the pressure of sunlight sweeps out fingerlike tails. According to this theory, the asteroid's spin has been accelerated by the gentle push of sunlight. The object, estimated to be no more than 1,400 feet across, has ejected dust for at least five months, based on analysis of t

This image of Pluto is part of series of New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) photos taken May 8-12, 2015; the image at left shows LORRI's view of Pluto just one month earlier.

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This image of Pluto is part of series of New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) photos taken May 8-12, 2015; the image at left shows LORRI's view of Pluto just one month earlier.

The total distance driven on Mars by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover, 21.35 miles by early December 2011, is approaching the record total for off-Earth driving, held by the robotic Lunokhod 2 rover operated on Earth's moon by the Soviet Union in 1973.

This diagram depicts the sensor head of the Planetary Instrument for X-RAY Lithochemistry, or PIXL, which has been selected as one of seven investigations for the payload of NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission.

MPF Top-Mast Measured Temperature

This chart illustrates how NASA's Curiosity rover talks to Earth. While the rover can send direct messages, it communicates more efficiently with the help of spacecraft in orbit, including NASA's Odyssey and MRO, and European Space Agency's Mars Express.