The Solar System fun facts

• A Light Year is the distance covered by light in a single year. This is equivalent to 5.88 trillion miles (9.5 trillion Km).
• The width of the Milky Way is around 100,000 light years.
• The sun is 300,000 times larger than Earth.
• Martin Day is 24 hours 39 minutes and 35 seconds.
• Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
• Pluto is smaller than Earth’s moon.
• There are more Volcanos on Venus than any other planet within our solar system.
• Four planets in our Solar system known as Gas giants,

1.    Jupiter

2.    Neptune

3.    Saturn

4.    Uranus

• In the inner Solar System, we find the “Inner Planets” – Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars – which are so named because they orbit closest to the Sun.