Not sure how they assume the north poles of the earth, sun, and Mercury are to the left of the image. All are slightly “out of plane” with the orbits, and the orbits of earth and Mercury are not quite parallel, but they are near-perpendicular to the solar system’s ecliptic plane.
Uranus, I believe, is the most significantly tilted - which has never really been adequately explained to my satisfaction.
Beautiful image!
It kind of looks like a baseball without the stitching on the left side. Me bad. Sorry.
I do love to look at these astronomical delights, though.
Quite agree... and despite that tilt (Uranus' axis is basically in the plane of the ecliptic), the Uranian moon system is basically unremarkable.