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Solar System Detailed

The Solar System is a collection of celestial bodies orbiting the Sun, which contains over 99.8% of its total mass. It includes eight planets, their moons, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and more, with inner rocky planets and outer gas or ice giants. The Solar System formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from a rotating cloud of gas and dust.

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Solar System Detailed

The Solar System is a collection of celestial bodies orbiting the Sun, which contains over 99.8% of its total mass. It includes eight planets, their moons, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and more, with inner rocky planets and outer gas or ice giants. The Solar System formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from a rotating cloud of gas and dust.

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Solar System

The Solar System is a vast and complex collection of celestial bodies that orbit our central star, the

Sun.

It consists of eight planets, their moons, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, meteoroids, and the

interplanetary medium. The planets, in order from the Sun, are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

The Sun, a G-type main-sequence star, contains over 99.8% of the Solar System's total mass. Its

immense gravity keeps all other objects in orbit. The inner planets (Mercury to Mars) are rocky and

terrestrial, while the outer planets (Jupiter to Neptune) are gas giants or ice giants.

The asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, is filled with rocky remnants from the early

Solar System. Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, home to many dwarf planets like Pluto, and

further out is the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy bodies.

The Solar System formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a rotating cloud of gas and dust. Through

processes of accretion and gravitational collapse, planets and other bodies gradually formed.

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