An Blog That Reaches for the Stars. This is a diagram of the Solar System. With the planets, some dwarf planets, and the Asteroid Belt and Kuiper Belt. This year I learned details about the Solar System that I did not even know existed. Before astronomy this year, I did not know about the Kuiper Belt. I thought we only had the Asteroid Belt.

Having never taken an astronomy class before, I learned a lot about our place in the universe and the how our solar system functions and interacts within the universe. The biggest thing I learned is the magnitude and scale of even just our galaxy. A Breakthrough in Our Knowledge of the Big Bang. This month, scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science discovered a distant dwarf planet.