Space Solar System

The sun is a vast ball of glowing hot gas.

Space solar system. The solar system is located in the milky way a barred spiral galaxy with a diameter of about 100 000 light years containing more than 100 billion stars. Nasa s real time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our solar system is made up of the sun and all the amazing objects that travel br around it.

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. It is so big and heavy that its gravity pulls all the objects in the solar system in orbit around it. The sun resides in one of the milky way s outer spiral arms known as the orion cygnus arm or local spur.

It is a collection of planets and smaller objects all traveling around a central star the sun. Our scientists and hardworking robots are exploring the wild frontiers of our solar system. The solar system is our neighborhood in space.