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- Our solar system consists of 1 sun which is a star. It is a part of the Milky Way Galaxy.
- Our Solar System is about 4.6 billion years old.
- Around the sun 8 main planets revolve in their particular axis.
- These 8 Planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- Some of the planets have their moons that keep revolving around them.
- There are hundreds of dwarf (small) planets (like Pluto) which also revolve around the sun.
- Mercury is the nearest planet to the Sun and Neptune is the farthest planet.
- Most of the planets are made up of rock and soil. Jupiter is a giant gas planet. It does not have any land.
- All planets revolve around the sun in an anti-clockwise direction except Venus which revolves in a clockwise direction.
- Like planets, our solar system is also in constant movement.
