It has a DIAMETER of 1,390,000 km
Equatorial Circumference 4,370,005.6 km
Mass: 1.99 × 10^30 kg (333,060 Earths)
Its SURFACE temperature is 5,500 ºC. Cooler (3,800 ºC) surface areas are called SUN SPOTS.
If you weigh 100 lbs, your weight on the Sun would be 2707 lbs. (multiply your actual weight by 27)
The Sun is what is known as a main sequence star;
The average radius of the Sun is 695,508 km (109.2 x that of the Earth) of which 20–25% is the core.
The Sun (or Sol), is the star at the centre of our solar system and is responsible for the Earth’s climate and weather
The Sun is mostly composed of hydrogen (70%) and Helium (28%).
The Sun is all the colours mixed together, this appears white to our eyes.
Over one million Earth’s could fit inside the Sun.
The Sun is 4.6 billion years old.
The surface area of the Sun is 11,990 times that of Earth.
The Sun has a very strong magnetic field.
The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system
It has a mass of around 330,000 times that of Earth.
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon is between the Sun and the Earth.
One day the Sun will consume the Earth.
The Sun is 109 times wider than the Earth and 330,000 times as massive.
Ancient Egyptians had a sun god called Ra while in Aztec mythology there is a sun god named Tonatiuh.
The energy created by the Sun’s core is nuclear fusion.
The Sun is a main-sequence G2V star (or Yellow Dwarf).
The Sun is almost a perfect sphere.
The Sun contains 99.86% of the mass in the Solar System.
The Sun is travelling at 220 km per second.
It takes eight minutes for light reach Earth from the Sun.
7. The ENERGY output of the Sun is about 386 billion megawatts and is produced by NUCLEAR FUSION, using Hydrogen as fuel.
The Sun is halfway through its life.
There are NINE planets orbiting the SUN (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto)
The distance between Earth and Sun changes. This is because the Earth travels on a elliptical orbit path around the Sun.
The Sun rotates in the opposite direction to Earth with the Sun rotating from west to east instead of east to west like Earth.
Earth orbits the Sun 365 days, yes, one year.
The Sun rotates more quickly at its equator than it does close to its poles. This is known as differential rotation.
The Sun rotates every 25-36 earth days.
The Sun has a powerful magnetic field. When magnetic energy is released by the Sun during magnetic storms, solar flares occur which we see on Earth as sunspots.
Temperatures inside the Sun can reach 15 million degrees Celsius.
The Sun’s energy travels outwards.
The Sun generates solar winds.
Helmet streamers are big white regions that extend out from the Sun in which solar plasma are trapped by the magnetic field of the Sun.
The atmosphere of the Sun is composed of three layers: the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona.
The Sun is classified as a yellow dwarf star. It is a main sequence star with surface temperatures between 5,000 and 5,700 degrees celsius (9,000 and 10,300 degrees fahrenheit).
Solar flares from the Sun are sudden bursts of brightness that happen in places near the sunspots.
A total solar eclipse occurs only during a new moon, which is when the moon sits directly between the Earth and the Sun.
The Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis are caused by the interaction of solar winds with Earth’s atmosphere.
Radiations of the Sun are in two forms, electromagnetic (photons) and particle (electrons, protons, alpha particles, etc.) radiation.
In February 1974, Skylab was the first manned spacecraft to study the Sun.
The beautiful symmetry of a total solar eclipse happens because —by pure chance— the sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but is also 400 times farther from Earth, making the two bodies appear the exact same size in the sky.
Solar flares produce bursts of electromagnetic radiation, x-rays, ultraviolet radiation, visible light, and radio waves.
The theory that the Sun is the center around which the planets orbit was first proposed by the ancient Greek Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century BC.
The Sun does not have a definite boundary, and in its outer parts, its density decreases exponentially with increasing distance from its center.
Six ten-billionths of the Sun is gold.
The sun is one of more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.
Every second, the Sun sends to earth 10 times more neutrinos than the number of people on earth.
It orbits some 25,000 light-years from the galactic core, completing a revolution once every 250 million years or so.
The Sun is thought to have completed about 20 orbits during its lifetime and just 1/1250th of an orbit since the origin of humans.
A third of all Russians believe the Sun revolves around the Earth.
The sun is relatively young, part of a generation of stars known as Population I, which are relatively rich in elements heavier than helium.
As passengers on Earth, we are all carried around the sun at a mean velocity of 66,600 mph (107,182 km/h).
Many scientists think the sun and the rest of the solar system formed from a giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula.
Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
All of the world's energy needs can be met with 1/10,000th of the light from the Sun that falls on Earth each day, according to the inventor Ray Kurzweil
Most of the material was pulled toward the center to form the sun.
Your eyes can get sunburned
The sun has enough nuclear fuel to stay much as it is now for another 5 billion years.
The Sun is 400 times further away from Earth than the Moon is.
A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
A huge solar filament snakes around the southwestern horizon of the sun in this full disk photo taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory on Nov. 17, 2010.
If the Sun were the size of a beach ball in Space, then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.
The solar interior, from the inside out, is made up of the core, radiative zone and the convective zone.
359 years after the Catholic Church forced Galileo Galilei to recant his theory that the Earth moves around the Sun, it declared he was right in 1992.
The star that's closest to our sun, Proxima Centauri, is still much farther away than Pluto.
The photosphere is the lowest layer of the sun's atmosphere, and emits the light we see
Sunspots are relatively cool, dark features on the sun's surface that are often roughly circular.
Isaac Newton developed a sunlight phobia from staring at the sun.
In 2004, NASA's Genesis spacecraft returned samples of the solar wind to Earth for study.
In 1666, Isaac Newton observed the Sun's light using a prism, and showed it is made up of light of many colors.
In 2007, NASA's double-spacecraft Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission returned the first three-dimensional images of the sun.
Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the Sun.
One of the most important solar missions to date has been the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), which was designed to study the solar wind, as well as the sun's outer layers and interior structure.
The American flags placed on the moon are now white due to radiation from the sun.
The Earth's core is about as hot as the sun.
An enormous eruption of solar material, called a coronal mass ejection, spreading out into space.
The sun rotates as it orbits the center of the Milky Way. Its spin has an axial tilt of 7.25 degrees with respect to the plane of the planets' orbits.
The Sun is about 13 billion times brighter than the next brightest star, Sirius.
Since the sun is not a solid body, different parts of the sun rotate at different rates.
Partial solar eclipses are hazardous to view because the eye's pupil is not adapted to the unusually high visual contrast.
At the equator, the sun spins around once about every 25 days, but at its poles the sun rotates once on its axis every 36 Earth days.
Looking at the Sun Can Trigger a Sneeze in 10 to 35% of people.
The sun has six regions: the core, the radiative zone, and the convective zone in the interior; the visible surface, called the photosphere; the chromosphere; and the outermost region, the corona.
In about 5 billion years, the Sun will deplete its supply of hydrogen and helium, turning into a red giant star, consuming Mercury and Venus and maybe even Earth.
The sun does not have rings.
The sun's surface is blisteringly hot at 10,340℉. while its atmosphere is another 300 times hotter.
The sun itself is not a place conducive to living things, with its hot, energetic mix of gases and plasma.
Earth spins at around 1,000 mph and hurtles through space in its orbit around the sun at about 67,000 mph.
The sun doesn't have any moons; instead, it has planets and their moons, along with asteroids, comets, and other objects.
The volume of space controlled by the sun's magnetic field is called the heliosphere.
The sun doesn't behave the same way all the time. It goes through phases of its own solar cycle.
1942: First observed radio frequency emission from the sun.
1994: Ulysses is the first mission to survey the space environment above and below the poles of our sun.
1946: First rocket observations of the sun (in the ultraviolet).
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