Every planet ever discovered barely adds up to a rounding error.
Every planet ever discovered barely adds up to a rounding error. The Sun holds about 99.8% of all the mass in the solar system. Everything else — all eight planets, every moon, every asteroid, every comet ever catalogued — shares the remaining 0.2%. Combined. That's not a gap, that's an erasure. To put a number on it: around 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the Sun by volume. And whilst you're sitting with that, it's burning through roughly 600 million tonnes of hydrogen every single second, converting it to helium. That sustained burn is what holds every orbit in the solar system in place — including ours. We don't circle the Sun so much as cling to it. Follow Deep Field Vault for more of the universe, one staggering fact at a time.