"Often, you have your own idea of what our solar system with its eight planets looks like, but when you actually recreate it to scale, you realize that space is much larger, emptier, and more breathtaking than you imagined, and that Earth is much smaller, lonelier, and therefore even more important to protect!" – Louk Röell
Did you know, for example, that Earth has its very own star? The Sun.
The Sun is the largest object in our solar system. The solar system we live in consists of eight planets with their moons, along with several dwarf planets. Together with hundreds of thousands of asteroids—both large and small rocks—and comets, these celestial bodies orbit the Sun.
The solar system as a whole is part of the Milky Way, a collection of about 200 billion stars arranged in a spiral shape, along with gas and dust.
