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                        SUN FACTS



Surface temperature:  5,778 K


Age:  4.603 billion years


Distance to Earth:  149.6 million km


Mass:  1.989 × 10^30 kg


Radius:  696,340 km


Gravity:  274 m/s²


Photospheric composition (by mass)


Hydrogen -     73.46%
Helium -          24.85%
Oxygen -          0.77%
Carbon -          0.29%
Iron -                0.16%
Neon -             0.12%
Nitrogen -       0.09%
Silicon -           0.07%
Magnesium -  0.05%
Sulphur -         0.04%

● It formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of matter.


● its light is closer to white than yellow.


● The Sun's core fuses about 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second.


● It create 4 million tons of matter into energy every second as a result. 


● One Day Sun will become sufficiently large to engulf the current orbits of Mercury and Venus, and render Earth uninhabitable. 


● The Sun is estimated to be brighter than about 85% of the stars in the Milky Way.


● It takes about 8 minutes and 19 seconds to reach Sun's light to reach on earth. 


● About one million Earths could fit inside the sun.


● Sun is 10 times wider than Jupiter.
● The sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth.


● The Sun is a ball of gas: it has no solid surface.


● The Sun is 99.86% of the Solar System’s mass.


● Our Sun is still Young. It's approximately half-way through its lifespan.


● The Sun is 30,000 light years away from the centre of the Milky Way.
● Every second the Sun emits more energy than humans have used in the last 10,000 years.


● Your weight on the Sun would be 27 times your weight on Earth.


● Isaac Newton proved the Earth orbited the Sun.


● Without the Sun, there would be no life on Earth. 


● The Sun is travelling at 220 km per second.


● Without Sun, Our Earth Would travel in the straight line.


● The outer atmosphere is hotter than the surface.


● Many ancient cultures worshiped the sun as a deity.


● The ozone layer absorbs most of the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays which cause sun burns.


● The process by which energy moves from the sun to the earth is known as radiation.


● It is as bright as 4 trillion trillion 100-watt light bulbs.


● It has enough nuclear fuel to stay as it is for 5 billion more years.


● When its hydrogen burns out, it will expand into the red giant and consume nearby planets, possibly even earth.


● In the end, it will become a dim and cool celestial body referred to as the black dwarf.


● The Sun is a very active star. No matter when or where you look, the Sun is always doing something interesting.


● The Sun will continue to burn for about 130 million years after it burns through all of its hydrogen.


●  The Sun is essentially the sole reason for our survival as a race.


● Sun rotating from west to east instead of east to west like Earth.


● 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.


● Magnetic energy released by the Sun during magnetic storms causes solar flares. 


● Ancient civilizations believed that the Sun was a god.


● The Sun sometimes ejects plasma from its surface. Plasma can travel at speeds of 450 km per second and causes solar wind. 


● Sun is the closest star to earth. 
There are an estimated 100 thousand million stars in our Milky Way alone.


● The Sun is very close to being a perfect sphere. 


● The Sun’s strong gravity holds all planets in their places.


● Staring at the Sun directly without wearing protective glasses on a bright sunny day can damage the eye.
 

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