Interesting Facts about The Sun
15. If a hollow Sun was filled up with spherical Earths then around 960,000 would fit inside.
14. The Sun is a star found at the center of the Solar System.
13. If you could take apart the Sun and pile up its different elements, you’d find that 74% of its mass comes from hydrogen. with 24% helium.
12. The sun is orbited by nine major planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (no longer an official planet).
11. The Sun is one among the 200 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
10. At the sun’s core, nuclear fusion burns about 600 million tons of hydrogen every second, resulting in 596 million tons of helium and 4 million tons of energy.
9. Its CORE temperature is 15 million º C.
8. The current age is believed to 4.567 billion years.
7. The sun is by far the largest object in the solar system.
6. No need to worry yet, it’s going to take millions of years, but eventually the Sun will have burned off all the hydrogen it has and start to burn helium instead. It will then start to grow and grow, and grow, until in about over 100 million years, it will have consumed the earth and many of the other planets in the solar system too.
5. There is only a 10 kilometre difference in its polar diameter compared to its equatorial diameter. Considering the vast expanse of the Sun, this means it is the closest thing to a perfect sphere that has been observed in nature.
4. Light from the Sun reaches Earth in around 8 minutes.
3. Unlike the planets, the Sun is great big sphere of hydrogen gas. Because of this, different parts of the Sun rotate at different speeds.
2. The sun is the closest star to Earth and is 149.60 million kilometers (92.96 million miles) away.
1. The Sun is one among the 6000 stars, which is visible to naked eye from the Earth.
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