how much space is in the solar system?
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If your question is : "how much space is in the solar system?" --\n\nThe solar system is a sphere occupying approximately 7.244^29 (7.244 followed by 29 zero's) miles\n\nIf that's not your question then I don't have the foggiest notion of what you're asking.
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The Solar System or solar system[1] comprises the Sun and the retinue of celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their 162 known moons,[2] three currently identified dwarf planets and their four known moons, and thousands of small bodies. This last category includes asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and interplanetary dust.\n\nThe principal component of the Solar System is the Sun or Sol (astronomical symbol ); a main sequence G2 star that contains 99.86% of the system's known mass and dominates it gravitationally.[3] The Sun's large mass gives it an interior density high enough to sustain nuclear fusion, releasing enormous amounts of energy, most of which is radiated into space in the form of electromagnetic radiation including visible light. Jupiter and Saturn are the Sun's two largest orbiting bodiesand account for more than 90% of the system's remaining mass. (The currently hypothetical Oort cloud would also hold a substantial percentage were its existence confirmed).[4]\n\nIn broad terms, the charted regions of the Solar System consist of the Sun, four rocky bodies close to it called the terrestrial planets, an inner belt of rocky asteroids, four gas giant planets and an outer belt of small icy bodies known as the Kuiper belt. In order of their distances from the Sun, the planets are Mercury (), Venus (), Earth (), Mars (), Jupiter (), Saturn (), Uranus (), and Neptune (). All planets but two are in turn orbited by natural satellites (usually termed "moons" after Earth's Moon) and every planet past the asteroid belt is encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles. The planets other than Earth are named after gods and goddesses from Greco-Roman mythology.\n\nFrom 1930 to 2006, Pluto (), the largest known Kuiper belt object, was considered the Solar System's ninth planet. However, in 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) created an official definition of the term "planet".[5] Under this definition, Pluto is reclassified as a dwarf planet, and there are eight planets in the Solar System. In addition to Pluto, the IAU currently recognizes two other dwarf planets: Ceres (), the largest object in the asteroid belt, and Eris, which lies beyond the Kuiper belt in a region called the scattered disc. Of the known dwarf planets, only Ceres has no moons.\n\nFor many years, the Solar System was the only known example of planets in orbit around a star. The discovery in recent years of many extrasolar planets has led to the term "solar system" being applied generically to all the newly discovered systems. Technically, however, it should strictly refer to Earth's system only, as the word "solar" is derived from the Sun's Latin name, Sol. Other such systems are usually referred to by the names of their parent star: "the Alpha Centauri system" or "the 51 Pegasi system".\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system
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The Sun's diameter is 864,938 miles (1,391,980 km). This is almost 10 times larger than the planet Jupiter and about 109 times as big as the Earth. The volume of the Sun is 1,299,400 times bigger than the volume of the Earth; about 1,300,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun.\n\nAs compared to other stars, however, the Sun is about average; red giants like Betelgeuse are about 700 times bigger than our Sun (and roughly 50 times as massive). Betelgeuse is also about 14,000 times brighter than the Sun. Red supergiants dwarf the Sun. \n\nThe Sun's apparent size in our sky is 32 arc minutes (it is the biggest object in the sky - 1 arc minute larger than the moon).\n\nTHE MASS OF THE SUN\nThe Sun's mass is roughly 1.99 x 1030 kg. This is about 333,000 times the mass of the Earth. The Sun contains 99.8% of all of the mass of the Solar System. \nThe mass of the sun is decreasing over time, as fusion reactions convert hydrogen into helium, releasing huge amounts of energy in the process.
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Olympus Mons on Mars.  Not sure of the exact height but close to 27 kilometres (about 88,600 feet)!   This is only in "our" solar system, but hey, thats got to be one of the tallest.
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SUN\n        diameter:    1,390,000 km.\n        mass:        1.989e30 kg\n        temperature: 5800 K (surface)\n                     15,600,000 K (core)\n\nMercury \n        orbit:    57,910,000 km (0.38 AU) from Sun\n        diameter: 4,880 km\n        mass:     3.30e23 kg\n\nVenus \n        orbit:    108,200,000 km (0.72 AU) from Sun\n        diameter: 12,103.6 km\n        mass:     4.869e24 kg\n\nEarth \n        orbit:    149,600,000 km (1.00 AU) from Sun\n        diameter: 12,756.3 km\n        mass:     5.972e24 kg\nMars \n      orbit: 227,940,000 km (1.52 AU) from Sun\n      diameter: 6,794 km\n      mass: 6.4219e23 kg\n\nJupiter \n        orbit:    778,330,000 km (5.20 AU) from Sun\n        diameter: 142,984 km (equatorial)\n        mass:     1.900e27 kg\n\nSaturn\n        orbit:    1,429,400,000 km (9.54 AU) from Sun\n        diameter: 120,536 km (equatorial)\n        mass:     5.68e26 kg\n\nUranus \n        orbit:    2,870,990,000 km (19.218 AU) from Sun\n        diameter: 51,118 km (equatorial)\n        mass:     8.683e25 kg\n\nNeptune \n        orbit:    4,504,000,000 km (30.06 AU) from Sun\n        diameter: 49,532 km (equatorial)\n        mass:     1.0247e26 kg\n\nPluto \n        orbit:    5,913,520,000 km (39.5 AU) from the Sun (average)\n        diameter: 2274 km\n        mass:     1.27e22 kg\n --------------------------------------------------\n............ Distance... ..Radius. ..Mass.\n.Name....... (000 km)... .(km).... .(kg)..\n------------- ----------- ---------- -------\nSun............0..... .697000. .1.99e30\nMercury.......57910.. ...2439. .3.30e23 +\nVenus........108200.. ...6052. .4.87e24\nEarth........149600.. ...6378. .5.98e24\nMars.........227940.. ...3398. .6.42e23\nJupiter......778000.. ..71492. .1.90e27\nSaturn......1429000.. ..60268. .5.69e26\nUranus......2870990.. ..25559. .8.69e25 *\nNeptune.....4504300.. ..24764. .1.02e26 *\nPluto.......5913520.. ...1160. .1.32e22
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Please make a distinction between the solar system and the Milky Way. The solar system consists of the sun, and the planets, asteroids, and comets orbiting the sun. There is one star in the solar system (the sun). The Milky Way is our galaxy and consists of billions of stars and presumably whatever planets, etc. orbit those other stars. The difference in size is quite considerable. If the solar system was only 2 yards across, the Mily Way would be 100,000 *miles* across.\n\nThe planets in our solar system are (in order from the sun) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, and Xena (unofficial name...may become Sedna). Most asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter, but not all of them.
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1 x Star ("Sol"/"The Sun")\n9 x planets\n140 x satellites (moons) [approx.]\nasteroids [1,000s]\ncomets [by guest appearance only]
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First: we are constantly being bombarded by millions of asteroids. The only thing that saves us is the atmosphere, which vaporizes them.\n\nI'll do a little math. We'll consider the solar system to end after the Oort Cloud, 100,000 AU or 9,300,000,000,000 miles. Therefore, the solar system has a volume of 4/3*π*(9.3*10^12)^3, or ........ about 3.369*10^39 cubic miles. The Earth has a volume of about 2.08*10^12 cubic miles.\n\nIn short, the Earth takes up 0.00000000000000000000000006% of the solar system. Even with trillions of potential threats, the chances are next to nothing.
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The earth is one AU from the sun.  One AU is 93 million miles.  The diameter of the solar system is 80 AU.  There are about 6 trillion miles in a light year.  The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second.\n\nPerforming the math.  The solar system has a diameter of .0012 light years.\n\nThe .0012 is derived from the following equeation - 93 million miles times 80AU divided by (186000 miles per second times (365 days times 24 hours times 60 minutes times sixty seconds).
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Yes, space is big. I mean really really big. You can't possibly imagine how absolutely huge it is. Also it's dark, cold and empty for the most part.
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No one knows.\n\nThere are about 10 planets in our solar system, depending on whom you ask.\n\nAround 100 planets have been detected in other solar systems.\n\nThere are at least 200 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy (ours).\n\nIf the average number of planets per star is 10, then there are 2000 billion or 2 trillion planets in our galaxy.\n\nNo one knows how many billion galaxies are in the Universe.
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hold on here, this isnt a short answer - \n    the Earth is on average 92Million miles from the sun, times pi for the circumforance and its roughly 290Million miles around.  divided by 365 for the number of days, the earth travels some 790,000 miles on one day, ya thats high on the odometer.  distance in one day divided by 24 hours comes to 33,000 MPH, now i did this on my computer but it does seem right, \n\nNow part 2, hang on here, big numbers ahead, the Solar System wihich Earth belongs to is roughly 26,000 Lightyears from the galactic core, (which has a Supermassive Black hole as heavy as 6 Trillion suns).  it take a quarter of a Billion years (250,000,000) for our solor system to complete one revolution around the galaxy. The circumferance could be some 80,000 Lightyears,  though i am not sure how to calculate the speed of the solar system.
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Tons!\n\nA moon is simply a large object that orbits a planet.\n\nThere are a total of 137 moons in our solar system. Here's the list of names and associated planets (see sources):
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Solar system is 11 letters in size.\n\nTHE solar system or A solar system are different matters\n\nWe have these things in English called defintite articles. Words like "A" and "THE". Learn them. Use them.
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Do one of our solar system and its relative distance from our sun
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Bound to the Earth, thousands!  In the Solar System, thousands!  In our galaxy, millions!  In the universe, billions, trillions, sextillions, maybe even infinity!
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well all the planets have moons exept mercury and venus  There are 240 known moons within the Solar system, including 162 orbiting the planets here is a link  u can find more info and the names on the moons\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_satellite