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.



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