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In our solar system, there are eight planets orbiting one star - what we call the Sun. The difference in each planet is that they are different sizes and at different distances from the Sun.

All eight of the solar system’s “major” planets appear in this illustration, but the actual number of planetary bodies orbiting our star is far greater.

The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in roughly the same plane, due to their formation from the same disc of debris around the sun.