SOLAR SYSTEM
THI IS SOLAR SYSTEM MADE BY ME ABOUT SOLAR SYSTEM Our solar system is made up of a star—the Sun—eight planets, 146 moons, a bunch of comets, asteroids and space rocks, ice, and several dwarf planets, such as Pluto . The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn , Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Our solar system is made up of a star, eight planets, and countless smaller bodies such as dwarf planets, asteroids, and comets . Our solar system orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy at about 515,000 mph (828,000 kph). We're in one of the galaxy's four spiral arms. ABOUT SUN Our Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system . It's about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it's our solar system's only star. Without the Sun's energy, life as we know it could not exist on our home planet. The Sun fa...