What is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it called?

What is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it called?

• A. Solar System
• B. Black Hole
• C. Nebula
• D. Oort Cloud

Answer: (A)

The Sun’s gravity holds everything that orbits it into one organized region, forming the Solar System. It includes planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other small bodies all bound to the Sun and following orbits around it. The term emphasizes the Sun at the center and the bound collection of objects that travel with it. A black hole is a collapsed massive star and a very different astronomical object; a nebula is a cloud of gas and dust where stars form; the Oort Cloud is a distant, theoretical shell of icy bodies on the Solar System’s edge, not the whole system itself.

The Sun’s gravity holds everything that orbits it into one organized region, forming the Solar System. It includes planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other small bodies all bound to the Sun and following orbits around it. The term emphasizes the Sun at the center and the bound collection of objects that travel with it.

A black hole is a collapsed massive star and a very different astronomical object; a nebula is a cloud of gas and dust where stars form; the Oort Cloud is a distant, theoretical shell of icy bodies on the Solar System’s edge, not the whole system itself.