We see the Sun every day, we feel the heat from the Sun and we know that the Sun is enormous but what are the facts about the Sun that might be useful for children doing their schoolwork or for general knowledge. We have put together a list of truly amazing facts about the Sun which will shock you, impress you and downright astound you. The Sun is an absolutely enormous element of our solar system and we hereby list a number of facts which you may find interesting.
If the Sun was to travel at the speed of light it would take just 8 min and 19 seconds to reach Earth
The Sun is not a solid mass as it consists of plasma and rotates faster at its equator than it does at the North and South poles
The Sun is 99.8632% of the total mass of our solar system
It is difficult to measure the size of the Sun because the density of the gas connected to the Sun changes on a regular basis
The Sun is around 150 times the density of water
The temperature in the hottest area of the Sun is around 13.6 million Kelvin
The surface of the Sun has a temperature 5,800 Kelvin
99% of the Sun’s power is generated in the core
The Sun rotates every 27 days
The Sun is only one of over 100 billion stars in space
It is estimated that the Sun is around 870,000 miles wide
The Sun is around 1 million times the size of Earth
Without the Sun the earth would not survive
The Sun consists of 92% hydrogen, 7% helium with the balance made up of other gases
The Sun burns around 7,000,000 tonnes of natural gas every second of every day
The Sun creates the light which reflects off the moon as the moon does not have its own light source
The heat from the Sun is created by a nuclear reaction and each time this occurs a tiny mass of the Sun disappears
It is only the surface of the Sun which shines and if the surface was removed there would be no light
It takes over 225 million years for the Sun to complete a full orbit of the Milky Way even at speeds of 800,000 km/h
A small planet more than 5.9 billion kilometres away from the Sun would still feel the gravitational pull of the Sun
It is estimated that Sun is around halfway through its full life cycle and more stable than it ever has been before
