- If it weren't for the sun, none of us could be here.
The sun has the largest mass of anything in all of space. Did you know that about the sun?
- The sun is a steaming ball of plasma made of hydrogen and helium and not a
solid mass. - Sunspots are areas on the sun that are cooler and happen in the photosphere.
- Solar panels harness energy from the sun to generate electricity for homes, businesses, schools and more.
- The Vitamin D you get from the sun is essential for humans. It helps keeps our bones healthy and prevents diseases.
- Without the sun, humans and many animals and plants wouldn’t be able to live on Earth.
- The sun is about 4.5 billion years old. Did you know this about the sun?
- There is a constant stream of particles from the sun called solar wind.
- Ancient Egyptians worshiped a sun God, Ra.
- The sun itself doesn’t have any moons. (But the moons of the planets do orbit the sun.)
- The distance between the Earth and the sun is different throughout the year because the Earth orbits the sun on an oval-shaped path and not a perfect circle.
- Compared to the moon, the sun is 400 times farther than the sun.
- The sun is 865,370 miles in diameter.
- The sun has another 5 billion years or so before it becomes a big, cool star or a “red giant.”
- The mass of the sun is responsible for 99.86 of the total mass of the solar system. This is an insane fun fact about the sun!
- The sun is only about halfway through its life cycle, currently a “yellow dwarf” or a medium-sized star.
- A spinning nebula of gas and dust collapsed and formed a disk shape that we call the sun.
- Overexposure to the sun and cause severe skin damage.
- If the solar wind from the sun hits the atoms from Earth’s atmosphere, you can sometimes see beautiful flashes of colorful light during the night, called auroras.
- The gravity of the sun is so strong that it holds the entire solar system together and everything in space revolves around it.
- A million Earths could fit inside the sun, that’s how big it is.
- Did you know that the sun isn’t a planet? It’s a star and technically they only one in our solar system. Did you know this about the sun?
- The more helium the sun produces, the hotter and brighter it becomes.
- The core of the sun is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. There is no life that can live on the sun.
- On the surface the temperature is 9,932 degrees Fahrenheit.
- About 4% of American homes generated electricity from solar panels in 2020.
- The chromosphere is the outer atmosphere of the sun and it has a strong magnetic force. This area creates solar flares and coronal mass ejections that you can see from Earth.
- Try not to ever directly look at the it. The ultraviolet rays can actually sunburn
the corneas of your eyes. This is a very good thing to know about the sun. - The last stage the sun will go through for a few billion years is when it becomes a “white dwarf” star.
- It’s takes the sun about 27 (Earth) days to rotate on its axis
- The sun is 94.5 million miles away.
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