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Stars are mainly made of hydrogen gas but in the process of their existence they make rock and metal elements.

Planets are all made of primordial hydrogen and the stuff that dying stars spit out. So they are made from metals rocky minerals and gases. Planets forming in different regions of a solar system will end up with different proportiosn of these.

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