5 mind-blowing facts about the sun you probably didn’t know
The Sun is a 4.5-billion-year-old yellow dwarf star, 93 million miles from Earth, providing the energy essential for life on our planet
Image Credit: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA & NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL
The Sun is an average-sized star at our solar system’s center, while some stars are 100 times larger and many systems have multiple stars
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The Sun is vastly larger than Earth, with a mass 330,000 times and a volume 1.3 million times greater
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The average speed of our solar system is 720,000 km per hour. However, even at this rate, the Sun's orbit around the Milky Way takes roughly 230 million years
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The Sun’s core, about 86,000 miles thick, reaches 27 million °F and powers its heat and light through hydrogen fusion