The Sun or Sol, is the star at the centre of our solar system and is responsible for the Earth’s climate and weather. The Sun is an almost perfect sphere with a difference of just 10km in diameter between the poles and the equator. The average radius of the Sun is 695,508 km (109.2 x that of the Earth) of which 20–25% is the core
Star Profile Age: 4.6 Billion Years
Type: Yellow Dwarf (G2V)
Diameter: 1,392,684 km
Circumference at Equator: 4,370,005.6 km
Mass: 1,989,100,000,000,000,000,000 billion kg (333,060 x Earth)
Surface Temperature: 5500 °C
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By fusion, the sun “burns” about 564 million tons hydrogen per second, resulting in 559,7 million tons of helium. The loss of mass, about 4,3 million tons per second…
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Facts!!!! By whom and what authority…. By what scientific method are these assumptions,claims derived
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