The Sun is one among the 200
billion stars in our Milky Way
galaxy.
The Sun is one among the 6000
stars, which is visible to naked
eye from the Earth.
The mass of Sun is 1.989 x 1030
kg (Approximately 2 million
trillion trillion kilograms).
The Sun's energy output is 386
billion billion megawatt.
The Earth receives 94 billion
megawatt of energy from Sun.
This is equivalent to 40,000 times
the power requirement of United
states.
The reaction taking place in Sun
is nuclear fusion, same as a
Hydrogen bomb.
Each second 700 million tons of
Hydrogen are converted to 695
million tons of Helium and 5
million tons of energy in the form
of gamma rays.
Each second the Sun loses 5
million tons of material.
The Sun's temperature at its core
is 14 million Kelvin.
The pressure at the Sun's core is
340 billion times the pressure at
the Earth's atmosphere.
The density of matter at the Sun's
core is about 150 times the
density of water in the Earth.
It takes up to 50 million years for
the energy produced at the core
of the Sun to reach its surface.
If the Sun were to stop producing
energy today, it would take 50
million years for significant
effects to be felt at Earth. If a drop sized matter from the
core of the Sun is placed on the
surface of the Earth, no living
organism will survive for a
distance of 150 km from that
drop.
The diameter of Sun is equivalent
to the diameter of 109 earths.
The surface area of Sun is
equivalent to that of 11990
earths.
The volume of Sun is equivalent
to the volume of 1.3 million
earths.
If the Sun were the size of a
beach ball then Jupiter would be
the size of a golf ball and the
Earth would be as small as a pea.
The gravity at the surface of Sun
is 28 times that of Earth.
A man weighing 60 kg in the
Earth will weigh 1680 kg in the
Sun.
The Sun makes up 99.86% of the
mass of the solar system.
Unlike the Earth, the Sun is
completely gaseous, there is no
solid surface on the Sun.
By weight, Sun comprises of 73%
hydrogen, 25% helium, 1.5%
carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen,
and 0.5% all other elements.
By volume, Sun comprises of
92.1% hydrogen, 7.8% helium
and 0.1% all other elements.
The Sun is at a mean distance of
149.60 million km from Earth.
The light takes 8.3 minutes to
travel from the Sun to Earth.
The Sun's gravitational pull is so
strong that, even Pluto, a planet
5.9 billion kilometer away from
Sun, is kept in it's orbit.
Escape velocity of any planet or
star is the velocity required for
any object to escape from the
gravitational pull of that planet or
star. The escape velocity of the
Sun is 2.22 million km/hr.
The light takes 5.5 hours to travel
from the Sun to Pluto, the outer
most planet.
Proxima Centauri (Alpha Centauri
C) is the star nearest to Sun. It is
4.3 light years away from Sun. If our Sun were just an inch in
diameter, the nearest star would
be 445 miles away.
The Sun rotates about it's own
axis once every 25.38 days.
The Sun exhibits differential
rotation. The rotation period in
the equator is about 25 days,
whereas in the polar regions it is
as high as 36 days.
The Sun orbits around the center
of our Milky Way galaxy once
every 240 million years.
The Sun is at a distance of 30,000
light years from the center of our
Milky Way galaxy and lies on one
of it's spiral arms.
The Sun along with the Solar
family is orbits around our Milky
Way galaxy at a velocity of 217
km/s.
The Sun has circled the Milky Way
galaxy for about 20 times only
since it's formation.
In addition to heat and light, the
Sun also emits electrons and
protons, known as the solar wind
which travels at a speed of 450
km/sec.
Around a trillion neutrinos from
the Sun will pass through your
body while you read this
sentence.
Solar flares are violent explosions
taking place in the Sun's
atmosphere occasionally. Solar
flares can reach more than
100,000 miles away from the sun.
Sunspots appear as dark spots on
the surface of the Sun. Sunspots
are the intense magnetic regions
of Sun with magnetic field
strengths thousands of times
stronger than the Earth's
magnetic field.
Every eleven years, the magnetic
poles of the Sun switch. This cycle
is called "Solarmax".
The luminosity of the Sun is
equivalent to the luminosity of 4
trillion trillion light bulbs of 100
watt.
All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on
Earth would only keep the Sun
burning for a few days.
An area of the Sun's surface the
size of a postage stamp shines
with the power of 1,500,000
candles.
The energy being emitted from 1
square centimeter of the Sun's
surface is enough to burn 64 light
bulbs of 100 watt.
The amount of the Sun's energy
reaching the Earth's atmosphere
(known as the Solar constant) is
equivalent to 1.37 kw of
electricity per square meter.
The amount of energy reaching
the earth's surface from Sun is
6,000 times the amount of
energy used by all human beings
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