solar system?

Question

My questions has baffled me for years.
If you imagine our sun with an equator and north and south poles,
Do the planets circumvent at the equator of the sun, or do some take
other routes like around the poles or in between?

Answer 1

The planets orbit at an angle, and not on the same plane of motion as the sun's equator. The sun's axis is tilted slightly, just like that of Earth's, relative to the plane of the planets' orbits.

Answer 2

The planets are more or less in the same plane, so you do not have some circumventing the equator, and some circumventing the poles. And, to answer your question, the planets circumvent the solar equator (yes, the Sun rotates and DOES have an equator and poles).

Answer 3

The planets orbit in the plane of the Sun's equator. Not exactly in the plane, because all the planets have slightly different orbital planes, but pretty close.

Answer 4

Every planet in the solar system orbits the sun along its equatorial axis.

The only exception is the dwarf planet, Pluto, whose orbit is lopsided. For half of its orbit it is over the equatorial plane of the sun, for the other half it is below.