What is the solar system?
Cosmic Family Spinning
What is the solar system?
Picture one ordinary star, just sitting there, glowing. Now picture a whole crowd of worlds spinning patiently around it, like guests who never leave the party. That crowd, plus the star, plus all the leftover crumbs of rock and ice — that's the solar system. And we live inside it.
The star at the middle is, of course, the Sun. It is not a special exotic thing — it's a giant ball of glowing gas, the same kind of star you see twinkling at night, just close enough to feel its heat. And it's enormous. You could pour over a million Earths inside it and still have room to rattle them around.
