Hello everyone, in this post I’ll share some facts I learned about the sun.
Websites and videos:
Sun website
A quick video about the sun
Another video about the sun
How far away is earth from the sun?:
About 93 million miles (150 million kilometres) separate Earth from the Sun on average.
How Big is the sun compared to earth?:
The Sun is roughly 10 times bigger than Jupiter, the largest planet, and nearly 100 times broader than Earth. Earth would be around the size of a nickel if the Sun were the same height as a standard front door.
How big the Sun is: 696,340 km
How big the Earth is: 6,371 km
Super star attraction:
The lone star in our solar system is the Sun. Because of its gravity, the solar system is held together at its centre. Everything in our solar system, including the planets, asteroids, comets, and minuscule space junk, orbits around it.
Days on the sun:
The rotation of the Sun makes calculating a “day” on it challenging. It does not rotate in a single, continuous ball. The Sun’s surface is not as solid as the Earth’s, which explains why. The Sun is actually constituted of plasma, an incredibly hot and electrically charged gas. Various areas of the Sun’s surface experience varying rates of rotation of this plasma. The Sun completes one revolution at its equator in 25 days on Earth. Every 36 Earth days, the Sun spins once on its axis at its poles.
Sun Dust:
When the solar system was first developing 4.6 billion years ago, a disc of gas and dust would have encircled the Sun early in its lifetime. Several dust rings that surround the Sun still contain some of that dust today. They follow the paths taken by planets, whose gravitational pull draws dust towards the Sun.
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How Hot is the sun?:
Around 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius) is the temperature in the Sun’s core, which is hot enough to support nuclear fusion. The enormous mass of the star is supported by the pressure this produces, preventing it from collapsing.
I’m finished for the day. Goodbye!
