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Exploring Our Solar System Planets and Space Our Solar System Have you ever looked up into the sky and wonderedwhat was there? Higher than the birds, past the clouds, and farther than the moon, a wholehost of fascinating objects spin in outer space. Let's imagine for a moment that we can leavethe earth behind, and explore the solar system that surrounds it. We call it the solar system because everythingin it is centered around the sun, and solar means something to do with the sun. The sunis a star, just like many of the stars that you can see in the night sky - just many timescloser to us. Still, the sun is very, very far away from the earth; almost 93 millionmiles away: that's why it looks so small, even though it's the biggest object in thesolar system. In fact, the sun makes up more than 99 percent of the mass in the solar system.If you put all of the planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and everything else in the solar systemtogether, they would make up less than ...

 All About The Sun Sun It rises in the morning, giving light to theland below it. It sets in the evening, leaving the worldin darkness. It even provides the heat and energy necessaryfor life to survive on Earth. You know what I'm talking about - the Sun! Because it is so important to us, the sunhas been studied and observed since ancient times.  Astronomers today still study it, and areconstantly learning new things about the sun, the center of the solar system. The Sun is a star, not so different from thestars that can be seen in the night sky. It may look different, but that is becausethe sun is many times closer to us than any other star, which allows us to see how hotand bright it is. The sun may be close to us compared to otherstars, but it is still very far from the earth: about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometersaway. Although the sun is so far away, it only takessunlight about 8 minutes to reach the earth because light travels so fast. Because the sun...