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Artists representation of the solar system with grid plane (not to scale) Image:Solar sys.jpg with Pluto removed to show only "Classic" planets This is an improved image, removing Pluto. This is my first nomination for any featured object on Wikipedia, so I hope I do this correctly.
English: Planets and dwarf planets of the solar system with sizes shown to scale, but with distances extremely compressed. Orbital planes have been altered with similar artistic license to line up planets and dwarf planets in separate rows.
{{Infobox planetary system | title = Solar System | image = Planets2013.jpg | image_scale = 1.5 | image_alt = A representative image of the Solar System with sizes but not distances to scale | caption = {{longitem | The [[Sun]] and [[List of gravitationally rounded objects of the Solar System # Planets | planets of the Solar System]].
Animations of the Solar System's inner planets orbiting. Each frame represents 2 days of motion. Animations of the Solar System's outer planets orbiting. This animation is 100 times faster than the inner planet animation. The planets and other large objects in orbit around the Sun lie near the plane of Earth's orbit, known as the ecliptic ...
Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system, according to NASA. Jupiter’s radius is over 11 times the equatorial radius of the Earth.
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The stars with the most confirmed planets are the Sun (the Solar System's star) and Kepler-90, with 8 confirmed planets each, followed by TRAPPIST-1 with 7 planets. The 1007 multiplanetary systems are listed below according to the star's distance from Earth. Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System, has three planets (b, c and d).
Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find ...