When I look at a solar system drawing there are planets circling the sun and they look like they are in a straight line and level to each other. But is there a below and above? Like if we sent out a camera directly under earth (south pole) would there be planets, stars, etc below Earth?
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Yes, there are stars in all directions of Earth that’s why you can see stars in all directions in the night sky in both the northern and southern hemisphere
All the planets orbit in roughly the same plane because the sun spun its gas cloud out to be a thick disk and the planets form in there like the rings of Saturn so there aren’t planets significantly above or below the plane of the ecliptic (the plane that most things orbit on)
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