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Our Solar System (Artist's Concept)

Fanciful illustration of the bodies in our solar system all lined up.
Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory-Caltech
Published: January 30, 2018

Artist's rendition of our solar system. Not to scale.

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