Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the bodies that orbit it (most prominently Earth), being a system of masses bound together by gravity. The name comes from Sōl, the Latin name for the Sun. It formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region of a molecular cloud collapsed, creating the Sun and a protoplanetary disc from which the orbiting bodies assembled.
Extends: [Solar System](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Solar System), [Planetary science](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Planetary science), [Planetary systems with eight confirmed planets](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Planetary systems with eight confirmed planets), [Space science](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Space science)
Properties
| Property | Expected Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Background | Text | #efefef |
| Title | Text | Solar System |
| Image | Text | Solar System true color (title and caption).jpg |
| [Image Alt](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Image Alt) | Text | A true-color image of the Solar System with sizes, but not distances, to scale. The order of the planets are from right to left. |
| [Image Size](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Image Size) | Text | 400px |
| Caption | Text | The Sun, planets, moons, and dwarf planets (true color, size to scale, distances not to scale) |
| Age | Text | 4.568 billion years |
| Location | Text | Local Interstellar Cloud Local Bubble Orion–Cygnus Arm Milky Way |
| Neareststar | Text | Proxima Centauri (4.2465 ly) Alpha Centauri (4.36 ly) |
| Frostline | Text | ~5 AU |
| Outerplanetname | Text | Neptune |
| Semimajoraxis | Text | 30.07 AU |
| [Kuiper Cliff](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Kuiper Cliff) | Text | 50–70 AU |
| Heliopause | Text | detected at 120 AU |
| Hillsphere | Text | 0.865 - 1.1 pc |
| [Noknown Stars](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Noknown Stars) | Text | yes |
| [Noknown Planets](https://wikipedia.org.ai/Noknown Planets) | Text | yes |
| Stars | Text | Sun |
| Planets | Text | *Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune |
| Dwarfplanets | Text | Pluto Haumea Makemake Eris more candidates... |
| Satellites | Text | 758 |
| Minorplanets | Text | 1,462,402 |
| Comets | Text | 4,629 |
| Inclination | Text | ~60°, to the ecliptic |
| Galacticcenter | Text | 24,000–28,000 ly |
| Orbitalspeed | Text | 720,000 km/h (450,000 mi/h) |
| Orbitalperiod | Text | million years |
| Spectral | Text | G2V |