Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of the solar system showing the orbits of the planets around the sun. From an early age, we are taught to ...

Hearing that our solar system is pretty big probably doesn’t come as groundbreaking news. But now an animation has illustrated just exactly how expansive that space is, and it is pretty mind-blowing.

For the inner four planets in this solar system, each planet orbits the sun three times for every two orbits of the planet immediately to its outside. For the fourth, fifth and sixth planets, they ...