Did you know? Sun is so massive that it can fit 1.3 million Planet Earths inside it.
Interesting, isn’t it? With so many things happening on Earth, we often forget how awesome the Sun is. So, In this post, we are gonna go through 15 Mind-Blowing Sun facts that will help you realize how scary and awesome the Sun is.
Fun Facts about Sun
1. Our host star, Sun, was formed about 4.5 billion years ago in the milky way galaxy’s Orion spur. It was born when a cloud of dust and gas called as solar nebula collapsed. And in the middle of this formation, matter condensed into a burning ball of gas that became our Sun.
2. Sun is made up of about 91% of hydrogen, 8.9% of helium, and 0.1% of heavier elements such as carbon and nitrogen.
3. The Sun can be divided into six layers. They are the corona, the chromosphere, the photosphere, the convective, radiative zones, and the core.
4. The temperature on the surface of the Sun is closer to 5,600 degrees Celsius.
5. And at the core, Sun’s temperature can reach 15 million degrees Celsius.
Interesting Facts about Sun
6. Sun contains approximately 99.8 percent of all the mass in the solar system.
7. Sun is so massive that it can fit 1.3 million Planet Earths inside it.
8. And, The Sun’s tremendous gravity it’s strong enough to hold the solar system intact and is primarily due to its size and mass. Our Sun is the largest and most massive object in the solar system. It’s more than 100 earth wide and could theoretically fit all eight planets inside nearly 600 times.
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9. Because of this mass, the Sun has a great pull on the fabric of space creating a gravitational force that causes nearby planetary bodies to be drawn toward it. This gravitational pull allows the Sun to hold together a system of eight planets, potentially dozens of dwarf planets, at least 170 moons, and countless comets and asteroids.
Without its gravity, these celestial bodies would drift off into deep space.
10. However, according to scientists, Our Sun is an ordinary star, just one among hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Insane Facts about Sun
11. Another critical property of the Sun is its magnetic field which encapsulates the entire solar system called the heliosphere, this force field protects the planets from harmful cosmic radiation.
12. Although the sun’s magnetic field is invisible to the naked eye its effects are noticeable on the sun’s surface are dark areas called sunspots. These mark strong pockets of magnetism on earth, and on some of the other planets, the sun’s magnetic field interacts with their atmospheres resulting in beautiful auroras.
13. Despite its size and strength, the sun will not last forever. In about 6.5 billion years, it will run out of its hydrogen fuel, expand to envelop Mercury, Venus, and even Earth, and then collapse into a small star known as a white dwarf.
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14. A complete revolution around the Sun takes around 365 days and six hours, which is why we have a leap day every four years to make up for this discrepancy.
15. It takes around 8 minutes and 19 seconds for the light from Sun to reach our planet.
So if Sun were to disappear, it would take us ignorant 8 minutes and 19 seconds to realize.
That’s it for this post guys, I hope you had fun while reading about 15 Awesome Sun facts for kids.
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