25 Facts About The Sun You Probably

Didn’t KnowBy Saagar Parikh

The Sun accounts for

about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System

Six ten-billionths of the Sun’s atoms are gold Meaning there

is 1.2 sextillion kilograms of gold in

the sun

As passengers on Earth, we are all

carried around the sun at a mean

velocity of 66,600 mph (107,182 km/h)

Your eyes can get

sunburned

To our eyes, in space, the sun would appear

white, not yellow

The sun is the most perfectly round natural

object known in the universe

Isaac Newton developed a

sunlight phobia from staring at

the sun

The American flags placed on the

moon are now white due to

radiation from the sun

Looking at the Sun Can Trigger a

Sneeze in 10 to 35% of people

Partial solar eclipses are hazardous to view

because the eye's pupil is not adapted to

the unusually high visual contrast

The sun is growing and will

eventually consume the

Earth

The Sun is about half

way through its life

The Sun generates solar winds

Light takes eight minutes

to reach us from the Sun

The sun has seasons

Image of the Sun Shot In Ultraviolet/ X-Ray

Spectrums

Some of the Sun’s solar flares

are more powerful than 100 hydrogen

bombs

The sun can cause storms on Earth The storm on the sun causes a type

of storm on the Earth, known as a geomagnetic storm. The most

powerful solar storms send coronal mass ejections (CMEs), containing

charged particles, into space.

The Sun’s gravity is 28 times that of

the Earth

The Sun is almost 110 times the

diameter of the Earth, and about

one million Earth’s could fit inside the

Sun

The Sun is travelling at 220 km per

second

The Sun will eventually

become the size of Earth

The distance between

Earth and Sun changes

The Sun rotates more quickly at its equator than it does close to

its poles

The Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis

(Northern and Southern Lights) are

caused by the interaction of solar winds with Earth’s

atmosphere

The Sun’s core can reach

temperatures of 27 million degrees

F (15 million degrees C)

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