• Our Solar System 24.1.2022 VIDEO: The 8 planets plus Pluto with planetary axis tilt with artist's rendering of lightning storms on Jupiter and Saturn, and Pluto's moon Charon crossing [credits below] • Our solar system is made up of a star—the Sun—eight planets, 219 moons, a bunch of comets, asteroids and space rocks, ice, and several dwarf planets, such as Pluto. The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is