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The sun
Aurora and dalton
Relation to sun
*We are the sun.
*We are 0.0 away from the sun.
Alpha Centauri
*The sun is 4.22 light-years away from the nearest star.
*is made up of three stars
Where is the sun?
*on the inner rim of the Orion Arm, near the Sagittarius Arm.
*The Mass is 1.989 x 10^30 kg
*the sun is gas, it doesn’t rotate like a solid planet would.
*The solar system is moving around the milky way galaxy
*velocity of 828,000 km/hr
Diameter of the sun in miles, kilometers, and earth diameters
*864,575.9 mi
* 1 Million km
* 1,392,684 km
Temperature and age of sun
*The sun is 5,777 k
*The temperature rises from the surface of the sun inward towards the very hot center of the sun where
it reaches about 27,000,000 Fahrenheit (15,000,000 Celsius).
*Began roughly 4.6 billion years ago, will continue for about another 4.5 – 5.5 billion years.
Odd facts about the sun!
*One million earths could fit in the sun.
*The sun contains 99.86% of the mass in the Solar System.
*The sun is an almost perfect sphere.
*The temperature inside the sun can reach 15 million degrees Celsius.
*Eventually, the sun will consume the earth.
*The sun will one day be about the size of the earth.
* The sun can appear blue.