Here's Why All The Planets Orbit In The Same Direction

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At school, we are 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, forming a considerable flat, 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 are 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 to observe the movements of the planets, they realized that they always followed a well-defined path through the ecliptic and that no known planet was outside this region.

Do all the planets really orbit the sun in the same plane and in the same direction?
Empirical observation has convincingly shown that the planets of the Solar System follow a relatively common path around the Sun. Although there are minor variations in the inclinations and eccentricities of their orbits, generally speaking, all planets orbit in a nearly aligned plane and counterclockwise direction as seen from the Sun's north pole.

Why do the planets have these orbits?
The planetary system we call home originated from a giant cloud of gas and dust that began to collapse under its gravity about 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud contracted, it began to spin faster due to the conservation of angular momentum. This rotational motion formed a flattened protoplanetary disk, with the Sun at the center and surrounding materials in orbit around it.

Do comets and asteroids also orbit in the same direction and the same plane as the planets?
While the uniformity of planetary orbits in the Solar System is well-established, the history of comets and asteroids presents a more complex plot regarding orbital alignment. Although, for the most part, they follow the general rules of planetary motion, these objects have also revealed an orbital diversity that enriches our understanding of the cosmos and the processes that have shaped our planetary system.

Could a planet orbit in a different direction from all the others?
The answer is yes; it could be that a planet had a retrograde orbit concerning the Sun, but for this to happen, two scenarios would have to occur.

Is there a planet with that feature?
The answer, again, is yes. That planet is called WASP-17b. This exoplanet, located about 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, defies expectations by orbiting its star in the opposite direction to the direction the star rotates on its axis. Its retrograde trajectory
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DISCUSSIONS & SOCIAL MEDIA

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Video Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:00 The Ecliptic
06:10 Why do the planets have the same orbit?
07:00 What means "Accretion"
09:20 Trojan asteroids
13:02 This planet has a different characteristics

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[TheDirtyBirchTrails]

Visually entertaining, but too much blah blah blah. This video could have been 5 minutes long.

[damarysdingui]

I was waiting for this..
Thanks for the upload, IC..💖

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[anthonyg]

In order for things to spin in the other direction we have to be in the southern part of the galaxy 😂😂😂

[johnathanmann]

Clicking the bell is completely unnecessary. I get notifications from all channels I subscribe to, and I haven’t used one bell.

[richardmercer]

It's all about angular momentum. I'll let you provide the details.

[ljunior]

I would want to know that about stars :)

[johnshields]

Ah, Pluto, our 9th planet, like I was taught throughout my eviction, all those models made of our solar system, then someone with too much time on their hands decides Pluto's all of a sudden not s planet. Whatever.

[citizenblue]

I still have my money on Nibiru/Planet 9

[sgtvidal]

Why do i have to watch commercials when i pay for you tube

[cruisersism]

I have a different theory on how our solar system was formed if any scientist is curious.

[HR-wdcw]

I always thought it was taught that the seasons are dependent on the hemisphere closest to the sun. I never really considered the distance to the sun to be a factor (which it's not obviously as was explained) although this MIGHT make sense but a few million km in space terms isn't really that much I don't think.

[Mamastayc]

nishimura comet??Ive been on Ted, AstroKobi to you and your….no update on this comet.

[jasonwebb]

The Earth at its closest approach to the sun is about 91.5 million miles. The Earth to the sun at its greatest distance from the sun is 94.5 million miles away.
Now if you blow this orbital path as big as Earth's, it will almost look like a perfect circle. So when a kid draws a circle on paper around the sun, the student is right. We wouldn't be able to detect that small of a So, hope that one get taught in school. Also the sun isn't a yellow or orange star. Our home star is white.

[jerrypizzini]

I think there’s another earth out there. There’s no way is just us…

[brianfileman]

Dissapountimg that the video showed the asteroid belt as popular imagination and many scifi movies do. If they were indeed that close they would quickly accrete into larger and larger bodies.
Typically, asteroids are millions of kilometres apart from each other. The video could and should have corrected this common misconception.

[radinelaj]

The planets orbits around the sun because of the spins of the sun. The spin of sun causes planrts orbits around the sun.

[TeWzy]

I learned absolutely nothing. I say it all the time 90% of people are horrible teachers