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All Around Science (Official) on Instagram: "The planets with the only two mapped dwarf planets - animation via Dr. James O'Donaghue (@physicsJ Twitter, Interplanetary YouTube) Close-up of the eight planets in our solar system, along with a couple of dwarf planets, to scale in relative rotation speeds and axial tilts. Imagery from: NASA / Hubble / Cassini / JHUAPL / SwRI / Solar System Scope processing https://www.solarsystemscope.com/text #space #astronomy #animation #drjamesodonaghue…

Solar System Planets!!! There are more planets than stars in our galaxy. The current count orbiting our star is eight planets. Solar System Planets The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it, either directly or indirectly. Of the objects that orbit the Sun directly, the largest ... Read more

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Learn lots about the planets in order from the closest to the Sun, and many other planet facts in our dedicated guide.

Right now we have the planets doing another Busby Berkeley choreographed dance! I got to thinking today about something I wrote in January 2012 when the planets were doing an interesting dance and I saw the choreography in my mind's eye from the vantage point of being an observer on this beautiful ball of dirt we call Earth. We are in such a swirl right now.

Planets are celestial bodies that orbit stars, and in our solar system, they revolve around the Sun. There are eight recognized planets in our solar system:

Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun, making it the most distant in the solar system. This gas giant may have formed much closer