Solar system

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Planets drawn many ways: a solid black ringed planet, a cheerful Earth with big eyes, a ringed ball in rust-and-teal stripes, a grey outline Saturn, an old engraved chart of orbits and angles, and a human head in silhouette filled with stars and circled by red rings.

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Solar system in the Space section

Planet takes single worlds, earth our own, star and constellation the night sky, galaxy the far view. Solar system is where the Sun's family is treated as a set: orbits, ringed planets, diagrams of who circles whom. A lone Saturn ends up here because the ring says "our planetary neighbourhood" better than any label.

Science, school or metaphor

The engraved orbit chart comes from an old astronomy text and lends weight to history-of-science slides. The outline and silhouette Saturns are clean pictograms for apps, logos and headings. The googly-eyed Earth belongs in kids' lessons. The starry head with rings is a metaphor — imagination, dreams, a mind full of ideas — and works on book covers and posters.

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Rings make a planet wide and flat, so these images need more width than height; check the crop on the image page before placing one in a square slot. The engraving has hairline strokes and faint letters that vanish when shrunk; keep it large. Solid black shapes take any colour you give them.

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