The Solar System consists of the Sun and a
collection of objects, including planets, their moons,
and asteroids that are held in orbit around the Sun by
its gravitational pull on them.

Our Solar System has eight planets which orbit the Sun. In order of
distance from the Sun they are; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto, which until recently was considered
to be the farthest planet, is now classified as a dwarf planet.

The Sun is a Yellow-Dwarf type Star, at the center of our Solar
System, within the Milky Way Galaxy, and is responsible for Earth’s climate
and weather. One million Earths could fit inside the Sun.

The Sun is a cloud of hot gasses densely packed by gravity made
up of 3/4 Hydrogen and 1/4 Helium and contains 99.86% of the mass in
the Solar System. It is 93 million miles away and it takes 8 minutes, 17
seconds for its light to reach us.

The Sun travels at 220 kilometers per second, or 492,126 miles per
hour. One journey of our Solar System around the center of the Milky
Way galaxy is sometimes called a cosmic year. That’s approximately
225-250 million years.

Our Mr. Sun was a 1960s television series that began with this 1956 
scientific film, directed by Frank Capra, that launched the Bell System
Science series.