The Sun


The Sun is a low mass star on the outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy. The Sun is some 30,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way and lies on one of the spiral arms.



The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is 93,000,000 miles. It takes light almost eight and a half minutes to travel this distance from Sun to the Earth.

The diameter of the Sun is 870,000 miles, 109 times larger than the Earth's. Sun's volume is big enough to hold over one million Earths.

The Sun is about 4.5 billion years old.

The Sun contains more than 99.8% of the total mass of our solar system.

A person that weighs 75 pounds on Earth would weigh about a ton on the Sun.

The Sun is extremely HOT! The middle of the Sun is at least 10 million degrees. The "surface" of the Sun (what we see) is only 5800 degrees.

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