It’s hard to make a true-color family portrait of the solar system. It turns out that most photos of planets aren’t true colors! Here's my attempt, using the best NASA photos I could find.

Solar system with sun and planets on orbit with universe starry sky. Galaxy with saturn, venus and neptune planets, illustration of cartoon planets on orbit

Sun or Surya is a royal planet and is considered the king in astrology. He represents the soul, will power, father, paternal relations, the king or the high officials. It’s hot and angry, colour is red, metal is gold and gem is ruby. Sun represents the eastern direction. The sun stays in each rashi (zodiac) for one month and takes one year to complete the round of the zodiac. Its motion is quite fixed and a lot of Indian festivals are as per the suns entry into the various signs. For example…

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Printable flash card illustrating: Mars, Saturn, Sun, Moon, Venus, Neptune, Jupiter, Earth, Mercury. Printable PDF versions available for download.

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Astronomy on Instagram: "This is Earth compared to 3 (potentially) habitable exo planets elsewhere in the universe. An exo planet is a planet orbiting a foreign star outside of our own solar system. These planets were never known to exist prior to the late 1900’s. 1️⃣ Kepler 186f - 582 light years away 2️⃣ Kepler 442b - 1,100 light years away 3️⃣ Kepler 62f - 1,200 light years away These exo planets are crazy far away, taking over half a millennium for light to get to the first one. Even…