text: I am in the center of the solar system. Kidding.\n\nThe sun is in the center. That's why it's called the SOLAR system. But Mercury is the planet nearest to the sun.\n\nNew findings suggest that there could be TEN planets in this solar system. The number of planets is random (or it appears to be). When the big bang happened, the sun attracted mass to itself as it oscillated, and the planets were formed.