SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working outward is the following: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and then the possible Planet Nine.

Detailed explanation-3: -The planetary system we call home orbits a star in an outer spiral arm of the vast Milky Way galaxy.

Detailed explanation-4: -The current count orbiting our star: eight. The inner, rocky planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. NASA’s newest rover-Perseverance-landed on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. The outer planets are gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and ice giants Uranus and Neptune.

Detailed explanation-5: -Moonless. The Sun doesn’t have moons, but it’s orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids, and perhaps three trillion comets and icy bodies.

Detailed explanation-6: -The solar system is the group of eight planets (their moons), asteroids, meteoroids, and comets. The planets of the solar system are mercury, Venus, earth, mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.