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[[File:Planets2008.jpg|400px|thumb|right|The [[Sun]], [[planet]]s and [[dwarf planet]]s of the Solar System. Compared with each other, the sizes are correct but the distances are not.]]
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In the Solar System often there is a Solar Wind. This is a flow of [[Plasma (physics)|Plasma]]. The Solar System is located in one of the arms of the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way galaxy contains about 200 billion (200,000,000,000) stars.

== Trans-Neptunian region ==
The area beyond [[Neptune]] is called the "[[trans-Neptunian object|trans-Neptunian region]]" (Latin: ''trans'' prep + acc - across, over, beyond). We have not explored here very much. 
ItThe region has a large number of small bodies. These bodies are mostly made up of rock and ice. This region is sometimes called the "outer Solar System", though those words are used more often to describe the region beyond the [[asteroid belt]].

=== Kuiper belt ===
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Eris (68 AU) is the largest known scattered disc object. There has been a debate on weather or not it should be described as a planet. This is because it is 25% more larger and about the same diameter of Pluto. It is the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System. It has one moon, [[Dysnomia]]. Eris and Pluto have a similar orbit.