Our Complete Solar System

The solar system is the gravitationally bound system of the sun and the objects that orbit it either directly or indirectly.

Our complete solar system.

Planet facts interesting planet facts mercury the smallest and fastest planet it zips around the sun in only 88 earth days. Mars mars was a wet and warm planet billions of years ago. Of the objects that orbit the sun directly the largest are the eight planets with the remainder being smaller objects the dwarf planets and small solar system bodies of the objects that orbit the sun indirectly the moons two are larger than the smallest planet. There are eight planets three dwarf planets moons and other astronomical objects bounded to its own orbit in the solar system.

Interesting facts about solar system. Venus venus thick atmosphere makes it the hottest planet in our solar system. Our solar system consists of our star the sun and everything bound to it by gravity the planets mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus and neptune dwarf planets such as pluto dozens of moons and millions of asteroids comets and meteoroids. More than 150 moons orbit worlds in our solar system.

Earth the only planet in our solar system with liquid water on the surface. All the objects in the solar system move around the sun in an elliptical orbit.