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The Sun is a yellow dwarf star, a hot ball of glowing gases at the heart of our solar system. Its gravity holds everything from the biggest planets to tiny debris in its orbit.

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Is the smallest planet in our solar system and the closest to the Sun. Is only slightly larger than Earth's Moon. Mercury is the fastest planet, zipping around the Sun every 88 Earth days.

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Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction from most planets. A thick atmosphere traps heat in a runaway greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet in our solar system.

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Earth is our home planet and it's the only place we know of so far that’s inhabited by living things. It's also the only planet in our solar system with liquid water on the surface.

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Mars is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. There is strong evidence Mars was billions of years ago wetter and warmer, with a thicker atmosphere.

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Jupiter is more than twice as massive than the other planets of our solar system combined. The giant planet's Great Red spot is a centuries-old storm bigger than Earth.

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Is adorned with a dazzling, complex system of icy rings, Saturn is unique in our solar system. The other giant planets have rings, but none are as spectacular as Saturn's.

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Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It rotates at a nearly 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. This unique tilt makes Uranus appear to spin on its side.

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Is the eighth and most distant major planet orbiting our Sun—is dark, cold, and whipped by supersonic winds. It was the first planet located through mathematical calculations, rather than by telescope

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Is a complex world of ice mountains and frozen plains. Once considered the ninth planet, Pluto is the largest member of the Kuiper Belt and the best known of a new class of worlds called dwarf planets.

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Comets are frozen leftovers from the formation of the solar system composed of dust, rock, and ices. They range from a few miles to tens of miles wide, but as they orbit closer to the Sun, they heat up and spew gases and dust into a glowing head that can be larger than a planet. This material forms a tail that stretches millions of miles.

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Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun. Although asteroids orbit the Sun like planets, they are much smaller than planets.

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Are objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. Think of them as “space rocks."

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Stars are born within the clouds of dust and scattered throughout most galaxies. A familiar example of such as a dust cloud is the Orion Nebula.