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The Sun is basically a big ball of gas, being made by around 91% hydrogen and 8.9% helium, in regards to atoms. When it comes to the Sun’s mass, it is made out of 70.6% hydrogen and 27.4% helium. The Sun’s mass is enormous, being 330.000 times than our Earth’s mass, which is 5.9 quadrillion kg.
The Sun is almost a perfect sphere. It is the closest thing to a sphere found in nature with only a 6.2 mile (10 kilometres) difference between its vertical and horizontal measurements. The Sun’s core is extremely hot! An unthinkable 13,600,000 degrees Celcius! The Sun has a very big magnetic field.
How Many Moons Can Fit in the Sun? The Sun is gigantic, and if it were hollow, you could fill it with around 64.3 million Earth moons. If you could fill it with Earth-sized planets, you would need about 1.3 million Earths. The Sun has a radius of 696.340 km / 432.685 mi and a diameter of 1.39 million km / 864.000 mi.
The Sun’s mass consists of 73% hydrogen, 25% helium, and smaller amounts of oxygen, carbon, neon, iron, and other elements. The Sun is so massive that it accounts for 99.86% of the total mass of the entire Solar System. The Sun currently fuses around 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second.
Since the Earth moves around the Sun, the distance differs, with Earth’s closest point from the Sun – perihelion – reaching 147.5 million km / 91.3 million mi. When it comes to Earth’s farthest point from the Sun – aphelion – it is around 152 million km / 94.5 million mi, a little over 1 AU away from the Sun.
Jupiter is so big because it is the oldest planet in our Solar System. It formed around one million years after the Solar System. Since it was the first planet to form, it had some advantages. These advantges are purely logical. The planets and the Sun formed through the swirling gas and dust from an interstellar medium, known as the solar nebula.
Venus is the sixth-largest planet from the Sun. It has a diameter of 12.104 km / 7.521 mi and a radius of around 6.051 km / 3.760 mi. The mass of Venus is equivalent to 0.9 Earth masses, or 90% of our Earth’s mass.
What Is the Sun Made Of? Finally we come to the big question: what is the sun actually made of? As mentioned it is a huge ball of gas which comprises hydrogen and helium. These gases are constantly burning producing the radiation that reaches out into the universe. The temperature in the sun’s corona reaches 3.5 million degrees Fahrenheit.
The sun on a clear day is visible from the earth and in fact we should never stare directly at it. This is despite it being 93 million miles away so just how big is this giant orange orb? Scientists estimate that the sun has a radius of roughly 435,000 miles.
The big question is how long has the sun been around for so far? Well obviously it is impossible to place an exact age on such a huge and ancient celestial body but experts suggest that the sun is somewhere in the region of 4.5 – 5 billion years old.