MySolarSystem.com is back with a new design

The long wait has come to an end. Finally our new design is online. Today we have opened the gates to a new site.

There are many new additions to the site which will make your browsing a more pleasurable experience here at MySolarsystem.com

Our News section has been revamped to bring you even more up to date news on what’s going on up there. Stay up to date with space news with us.

We have a brand new Arcade section for those of you who just love to play space games. Let’s see if you can make it into our top ten high scores list. There will be more games added overtime to continually keep you occupied having fun here at MSS.

The next brand-new area is our online Shop! Now you can buy items such as t-shirts, caps, mugs, mouse mats, calendars and many more exiting products. These are available in many designs, so make sure you stop by and check out our big selection wonderful products.

Another new area is the Archives section which will house new articles related to our solar system and space in general. If you know of any exiting information which you think will be valuable to MSS readers, then get in contact with us and we will add it to our archives.

The Kids section has now been updated with special quizzes for you and your kids to enjoy and test your knowledge of our solar system.

We also have newsletters which for now we plan to send out once a month to keep you updated on any exiting solar system news you may have missed. You can sign up by adding your email to the block found on the left hand of the screen called “MSS Newsletter”. Unsubscribing is also easy, so if you ever want to stop the newsletter you will have the option to do so. You can be assured we won't be passing your email address over to any 3rd parties and it will be strictly used to send you newsletters. Also checkout our new poll and vote for your favourite planet.

Apart from all the new additions you will notice the slightly updated design with some tweaks and changes to areas such as the forum and art gallery. We hope you all enjoy this update. It certainly took us quite some time preparing it for you, but I am sure once you browse the site for a while you will agree it has been worth the wait.

Please read the new About Us section to see if you can help contribute to this great community and help us grow and make MSS a better place for everyone.

We are here to satisfy your curiosity about the Sun, the nine planets and the small bodies around them.

Navigating the site you will find facts about our sun, and all its surrounding nine planets. Take a look in our gallery to find pictures of our solar system. We are looking to make this site educational for both adults and kids. Tell all your friends and family about us, help us grow to become one of the best sites out there!

History

It all began with the Big Bang. The Big Bang theory tries to explain how the Universe began and is evolving.

In essence, it is a theory that was created to explain two facts that we know about the Universe - it is gradually expanding and cooling. In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble found that galaxies far from our own Milky Way are moving away from us. In fact, the further away galaxies are, the faster they are receding. So he concluded that the whole Universe must have been expanding. Working backwards this means that at one stage the Universe must have come from a single point.

The Big Bang describes how this fireball grew to form all the stars and planets we see around us now. Because of its name many people think of the Big Bang as a kind of explosion that happened at some specific point in space, but this isn't correct, as the Universe didn't spring from one central ignition point. Instead, during the Big Bang space was first created and then stretched.

Things to know

In addition to the Sun and the nine planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) there are a number of over 130 satellites of the planets - and there are probably also many more planetary satellites that have not yet been discovered!

-Some moons are larger than Pluto - two of them are larger even than Mercury.
-Some moons started probably as asteroids and they were captured later by the planet
-The Sun contains 98% of our Solar System mass, and a big part of the remaining two percents is actually Jupiter.
- You could fit over one million Earths inside the Sun.
- Not all planets have a solid ("rocky", or "terestrial" surface)- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are composed primarily of hydrogen and helium and generally have low densities.

Million dollar questions

- Are we alone in the Universe? What is so special about our Earth?
- There are intelligent life forms outside our Solar System?
- Will we be able to communicate with them one day?