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The
sun is the star at the center of the
solar system.

The
sun spins on its axis from left to right.
It takes about 26 days for the sun to
spin one time.
It contains more than 99.8% of the total
mass of the Solar System (Jupiter contains
most of the rest).
There are nine planets and a large number
of smaller objects orbiting the Sun,
it calls satellites.
What
is the sun temperature?
The
Sun's temperature is 10,000 degrees
Fahrenheit at the surface and 27,000,000
degrees Fahrenheit at the center.
The surface of the Sun, called the photosphere,
is at a temperature of about 5800 K.
Sunspots are "cool" regions,
only 3800 K. Sunspots can be very large,
as much as 50,000 km in diameter.
What
is a sunspot?
It's
A dark area on the Sun's surface that
is cooler than the area around it. Sunspots
are caused by magnetic storms on the
Sun.
How
far is the sun from the earth ?
The
distance from the Earth to the Sun is
93,000,000 miles.
It takes light eight and a half minutes
to travel from the Sun to the Earth.
The Sun is some 333,400 times more massive
than Earth.
One million Earths could fit inside
the sun.
How
big is the sun ?
The
diameter of the Sun is 870,000 miles,
109 times larger than the Earth's. Its
volume is big enough to hold over 1
million Earths. |