A field guide to the Solar System
Our star, its planets and some smaller companions
The Sun, all eight planets and a few smaller companions, from Mercury to Neptune plus the Moon, Ceres and Pluto, each with its distance from the Sun, the length of its year and its axial tilt.
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- Sun Our star, a yellow dwarf Holds 99.8 % of the mass
- Mercury Smallest planet, closest to the Sun 58 million km · 88 days
- Venus Hottest planet, veiled in cloud 108 million km · 225 days
- Earth The only known world with life 150 million km · 365 days
- Moon Circles Earth at 384,400 km Earth's companion · 27.3 days
- Mars The red planet 228 million km · 687 days
- Ceres Dwarf planet in the asteroid belt 414 million km · 4.6 years
- Jupiter Gas giant, the largest planet 778 million km · 11.9 years
- Saturn Gas giant with bright rings 1.43 billion km · 29.5 years
- Uranus Ice giant, tipped on its side 2.87 billion km · 84 years
- Neptune Ice giant with the fiercest winds 4.5 billion km · 165 years
- Pluto Dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt 5.9 billion km · 248 years
Not to scale. Distances are mean distances from the Sun, times one orbit around it.
Gold figures give the axial tilt; the diamond marks the north pole.