The document provides information about the eight planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. It describes key facts about each planet such as their size, composition, orbit, and other distinguishing features. The solar system revolves around our sun, a common yellow star called Sol.

1. earth
Mercury Mars
Uranus
Pluto
The sun
Jupiter
Saturn
NEPTUNE Venus

2. Our Sun is not unique in the
universe. It is a common middle-
sized yellow star which scientists
have named Sol, after the ancient
Roman name. This is why our
system of planets is called the Solar
System. There are trillions of other
stars in the universe just like it.
Many of these stars have their own
systems of planets, moons,
asteroids, and comets.
Did you know!
Light from the Sun can reach the Earth in only 8 minutes! This is called the speed of light. The
Sun is nearly 93 million miles (approx 145 million km) from Earth.!

3. Pluto
Pluto orbits beyond the orbit of Neptune
(usually). It is much smaller than any of the
official planets and now classified as a "dwarf
planet". Pluto is smaller than seven of the solar
system's moons (the Moon, Io, Europa,
Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton).

4. Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the
Sun in the Solar System. The planet is
named after the Roman god of war,
Mars. It is often described as the "Red
Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent
on its surface gives it a reddish
appearance

5. Neptune
Neptune is the eighth and
farthest planet from the Sun in
the Solar System. Named for the
Roman god of the sea, it is the
fourth-largest planet by
diameter and the third largest
by mass.

6. Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the
second largest planet in the Solar System, after
Jupiter. Saturn is named after the Roman god
Saturn, equated to the Greek Cronus (the Titan
father of Zeus), the Babylonian Ninurta and the
Hindu Shani. Saturn's astronomical symbol
represents the Roman god's sickle.

7. Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet
from the Sun. It has the third-
largest planetary radius and
fourth-largest planetary mass
in the Solar System. It is
named after the ancient Greek
god Uranus

8. Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun,
orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet
is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of
love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the
brightest natural object in the night sky, bright
enough to cast shadows. Venus reaches its
maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or
shortly after sunset, for which reason it has
been known as the Morning Star or Evening
Star.

9. Jupiter
• Jupiter is the fifth planet from the
Sun and the largest planet within
the Solar System.[13] It is a gas
giant with mass one-thousandth
that of the Sun but is two and a
half times the mass of all the
other planets in our Solar System
combined. Jupiter is classified as
a gas giant along with Saturn,
Uranus and Neptune. Together,
these four planets are sometimes
referred to as the Jovian or outer
planets.

10. Mercury
• Mercury is the smallest planet in the
Solar System, orbiting the Sun once
every 87.969 Earth days. The orbit of
Mercury has the highest eccentricity of
all the Solar System planets, and it has
the smallest axial tilt. It completes
three rotations about its axis for every
two orbits. The perihelion of Mercury's
orbit processes around the Sun at an
excess of 43 arc seconds per century, a
phenomenon that was explained in the
20th century by Albert Einstein's
General Theory of Relativity.[11]
Mercury is bright when viewed from
Earth, ranging from −2.3 to 5.7 in
apparent magnitude

11. Earth
Earth (or the Earth) is the third
planet from the Sun, and the
densest and fifth-largest of the
eight planets in the Solar
System. It is also the largest of
the Solar System's four solid
planets. It is sometimes
referred to as the World, the
Blue Planet,or by its Latin
name, Terra