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   Jan 21, 2022 · Mass and volume. The total volume of the sun is 1.4 x 10 27 cubic meters. About 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun, according to NASA's statistics. The mass of the sun is 1.989 x 10 30 ...

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3. science.nasa.gov › sun › factsOur Sun: Facts - Science@NASA

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   The core is the hottest part of the Sun. Nuclear reactions here – where hydrogen is fused to form helium – power the Sun’s heat and light. Temperatures top 27 million °F (15 million °C) and it’s about 86,000 miles (138,000 kilometers) thick. The density of the Sun’s core is about 150 grams per cubic centimeter (g/cm³).

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   The Sun will spend a total of approximately 10 to 11 billion years as a main-sequence star before the red giant phase of the Sun. [134] At the 8 billion year mark, the Sun will be at its hottest point according to the ESA's Gaia space observatory mission in 2022.

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   The Heliophysics Big Year is a global celebration of the Sun’s influence on Earth and the entire solar system. Get Involved NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of an X4.5 solar flare – as seen in the bright flash in the upper right – on May 6, 2024.

7. www.astronomy.com › science › the-sun-facts-size-andThe Sun: Facts, size, and fate of Earth’s blazing star

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   Oct 18, 2023 · How big is the Sun? With a diameter of some 864,000 miles (1.39 million km), the Sun dwarfs any other object in our solar system. In fact, you could fit about 1.3 million Earths inside it.

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   Jun 27, 2019 · The Short Answer: Our Sun is an average sized star: there are smaller stars and larger stars, even up to 100 times larger. Many other solar systems have multiple suns, while ours just has one. Our Sun is 864,000 miles in diameter and 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface. Our Sun is a bright, hot ball of hydrogen and helium at the center of ...

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   How big is the Sun compared to other stars?

   • With a diameter of some 864,000 miles (1.39 million km), the Sun dwarfs any other object in our solar system. In fact, you could fit about 1.3 million Earths inside it. However, despite its dominance over our solar system, the Sun is still a relatively diminutive star when compared to others in the known universe.

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   How big is the Sun?

   • The sun is nearly a perfect sphere. Its equatorial diameter and its polar diameter differ by only 6.2 miles (10 km). The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864,938 miles (1.392 million km). You could line up 109 Earths across the face of the sun, according to NASA.

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   How big is the Sun compared to Earth?

   • The Sun is about 100 times wider than Earth and about 10 times wider than Jupiter, the biggest planet. The Sun is the only star in our solar system. It is the center of our solar system, and its gravity holds the solar system together. Everything in our solar system revolves around it – the planets, asteroids, comets, and tiny bits of space debris.

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   How many Earths can fit inside the Sun?

   • The total volume of the sun is 1.4 x 10 27 cubic meters. About 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun, according to NASA's statistics. The mass of the sun is 1.989 x 10 30 kilograms, about 333,000 times the mass of the Earth.

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   Is our Sun a big star?

   • Our Sun is an average sized star: there are smaller stars and larger stars, even up to 100 times larger. Many other solar systems have multiple suns, while ours just has one. Our Sun is 864,000 miles in diameter and 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface. Our Sun is a bright, hot ball of hydrogen and helium at the center of our solar system.

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   How long will the Sun be a star?

   • The Sun will spend a total of approximately 10 to 11 billion years as a main-sequence star before the red giant phase of the Sun. [ 132 ] At the 8 billion year mark, the Sun will be at its hottest point according to the ESA's Gaia space observatory mission in 2022. [ 133 ]

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    Jun 9, 2021 · The sun is one of more than 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.It orbits some 25,000 light-years from the galactic core, completing a revolution once every 250 million years or so.