Our place in space

EARTH

Our planet orbits the Sun.

SOLAR SYSTEM

The Sun and the objects orbiting it.

MILKY WAY

The galaxy containing our Solar System.

UNIVERSE

All galaxies and the space between them.

A light-year measures distance, not time.

It is the distance light travels in one year.

The planets in order from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Sizes and distances are not to scale.