solar system, n.Trivia

If the Milky Way were the size of the US, the solar system would be the size of a quarter

The solar system is large --- if the Earth were the size of a golf ball, it woud be 18.6 miles across

The solar system is a great void --- all of the planets in the solar system could fit between the Earth and the moon

The Milky Way is so large that If the Earth were the size of a golfball, the Milky Way would not even be able to fit in our solar system

The Solar System has a boundary wall. Astronomers call it the heliopause.

Earth is actually located inside the sun's atmosphere

The sun is enormous --- it contains 99.86% of all of the mass of the entire Solar System

The sun is 99% of our solar system's mass

It takes our solar system about 240 million years to complete one orbit of the Galaxy.