The sun is just an ordinary star, but it is the largest object in our solar system. It is also about 4.5 billion years old. Find out more right here!
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At present, the sun is about 75 percent winds.
The Sun's Surface temperature is 5,778 K
The diameter of the sun is 864,950 miles making the Earth a pipsqueak at only 8,000 miles. If the Sun was hollow, you could fit about a million travel from the Sun to the Earth. But if you could hop in the car and drive to the Sun, it would take 176 years at the speed of 60 miles per hour.
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- The word sun means Yellow Dwarf.
- There are dark blotches on the Sun's surface called Sunspots. These are cooler areas of the Sun.
- The surface of the Sun is called the photosphere.
- The Sun spins around its axis once every 27.4 days.
- There are sometimes "Mock Suns" which are called Sun Dogs because they follow the sun around. These Sun Dogs are usually seen as bright spots on opposite sides of the winter sun.
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun
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