Eli5 is there a below and above in space?

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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 and no. It all depends on where you set your center point and how you define “up” and how you define “down” from there. Just like how the only reason we think of the North Pole as being the “top” of the planet, the farthest point “up” you can travel, is because that became the common convention for defining the earth. It is practical.

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