The Solar System: Planets, Moons, & The Sun

Interesting facts about Celestial Bodies within the Solar System

What you'll learn

All the planets in the Solar System

Some of the moons in the Solar System

The Asteroid belt

The Sun and it’s lifecycle

Requirements

Some very basic knowledge of chemistry would be helpful, but not essential

Description

In this course, you will learn about all 8 planets in the Solar system, plus Pluto, 9 Moons, the asteroid belt, and our yellow Dwarf Star the Sun.This course includes the closest planet to the Sun Mercury, the hot and hostile Venus, our home the Earth, the red and dusty planet Mars, the massive and majestic Jupiter, the ringed planet Saturn, Uranus, the ocean blue Neptune, the small and icy Pluto, Earths crater covered Moon, the tiny misshaped moons of Mars Phobos and Deimos, the 4 main moons of Jupiter volcanic Io, Europa, the largest moon in the Solar system Ganymede, the crystal covered Calisto, the cloud covered moon of Saturn Titan, the moon of Neptune Triton, the asteroid belt, the Sun, what it does throughout the eons and its stages of evolution. At the end of the lectures on the planets, the moons, the asteroid belt and the Sun, you will be given a test to complete. Things mentioned about each of celestial bodies such as sizes and distances, interesting facts and chemical properties of different bodiesThere will also be a bonus lecture on 4 different star systems near the Solar system, this includes the closest star system to our own the Alpha Centauri system, aswell as the Barnards Star system, the brightest star in the night sky Sirius system and the Tau Ceti system

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome to the Course

Lecture 2 Quick Heads up before you start the Course

Section 2: The Solar System

Lecture 3 Mercury

Lecture 4 Venus

Lecture 5 Earth

Lecture 6 The Moon

Lecture 7 Mars

Lecture 8 Phobos and Deimos

Lecture 9 The Asteroid Belt

Lecture 10 Jupiter

Lecture 11 Io

Lecture 12 Europa

Lecture 13 Ganymede

Lecture 14 Callisto

Lecture 15 Saturn

Lecture 16 Titan

Lecture 17 Uranus

Lecture 18 Neptune

Lecture 19 Triton

Lecture 20 Pluto

Lecture 21 The Sun

Section 3: Additional content

Lecture 22 Neighbouring Star Systems

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