Psalm 147:4 God counts the number of the stars and he calls all of them by name
At the centre of our planetary system is our local star - the Sun - a typical G-type main sequence star that fuses hydrogen into helium in its core at temperatures of over 16,000,000 degrees Celsius. This image was taken on 10 October, 2015 by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. The dark area across the top of the Sun's disk is a coronal hole, a region where the magnetic field is open to interplanetary space, sending coronal material speeding out in a high-speed solar wind stream. Related: A psychedelic X-ray of our Sun Mercury INFOGRAPHIC: Mercury taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft in 2011 (NASA/JPL/GSFC/Roscosmos) Mercury is the nearest planet to the Sun, taking just 88 Earth days to orbit the star on an unusual elliptical path that sees it rotate on its axis three times for every two orbits it makes around the Sun. This image was taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft, which became the first probe to enter orbit around Mercury on March 18, 2011.