Space And Planets - Facts for Kids

Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, has geysers that shoot nitrogen ice and dust 5 miles (8 km) high into space.

Scientists think Neptune captured Triton from elsewhere in space billions of years ago.

Neptune was actually the farthest planet from the Sun from 1979 to 1999, when Pluto’s oval-shaped orbit brought it closer.

Neptune is about 17 times heavier than Earth.

Pluto is the ninth major object from the Sun in our solar system, sitting way out at the very edge of our planetary neighborhood!