Consider the sounds that come to pupils’ minds when they think of the planets within the solar system, the sun and other items in space such as a moon. How do the sounds tell a story of the ...

But what’s it like on other planets? There are eight planets in our solar system. The closest one to the sun is Mercury, then it’s Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E. Kraaikamp (ROB) As tempting as it is to cite one, no single number can describe the temperature of the whole Sun. Its layers are at ...