There are eight planets, three dwarf planets, moons and other astronomical objects bounded to its own orbit in the solar system.
Sun Planet Facts. Eight planets move around the sun. The sun is by far the largest object in the solar system.
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Mercury is the closest planet to our sun, at just 58 million km (36 million miles) or 0.39. One of the interesting facts about the outer planet is, you can not stand on its surface as these are mercury is an extremely hot planet because it is the nearest to the sun. Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core.
The sun is the star at the center of the solar system. Here is a brief look at the eight planets in our solar system. Nobody knows for sure how many dwarf planets exist in our solar system. Mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune.
