The Sun orbits the center of the Milky Way, bringing the planets, asteroids, comets, and other objects along with it. But what does the Sun orbit?Įverything in the Solar System is located in the Milky Way galaxy. The Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, millions of asteroids, and up to three trillion comets and icy bodies. The nearest stellar neighbor to the Solar System is the Alpha Centauri triple star system. The Sun is 93 million mi / 150 million km away from Earth. Not even all the planets combined could fit inside the Sun.
The volume of the Sun is so great that you would need 1.3 million Earth-sized planets to fill it. This is 109 times greater than the diameter of our planet. It has a radius of 432,168 mi / 695,508 km and a diameter of around 1.39 million kilometers / 864,000 miles. Our Sun is a relatively medium-sized type of star. Scientists believe that the Sun is already at around halfway through its lifetime and will last for another 5 billion years before it will shrink down to become a white dwarf star. Like all-stars, the Sun will eventually run out of energy and it will swell and thus engulf Mercury, Venus, and most likely even Earth. Most of the material was pulled in the center to form our Sun, which accounts for 99.8% of the mass of the entire Solar System. The solar nebula collapsed due to its overwhelming gravity, it spun faster and flattened to a disk. Our Sun together with the Solar System formed from a giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula, around 4.5 billion years ago. In ancient Egypt, the Sun was worshipped as the god Ra while in Greece, the Sun was a male deity named Helios, and for the Japanese, the Sun was a goddess named Amaterasu. The ancient Sumerians associated the Sun with Utu, the god of justice and twin brother of Inanna, the Queen of Heaven, who was identified as the planet, Venus. The English word “sun” developed from Old English “sunne.” Many cultures throughout the world had solar deities in their religions and mythologies.
The Sun’s core is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit / 15 million degrees Celsius. The Sun spins once every 25 days, but at its poles, it rotates once every 35 days. Though there are billions of stars in the galaxy, our Sun will always be the most special star. The connection and interactions between the Sun and Earth drive the seasons, ocean currents, weather, climate, radiation belts, and aurorae. Many cultures from around the world associated the Sun with their most important deity or a very prominent one, and for good reason! Without the Sun, we wouldn’t exist. The Sun is approximately 4.6 billion years old. Our Sun is labeled as a G-type main-sequence star or G2V. Every star is classified based upon their physical characteristics. 
It can take between 10,000 and 170,000 years for this energy to escape from the Sun’s core.
This energy is the source of the Sun’s light and heat. It is converting 4 million tons of matter into energy every second as a result. The Sun currently fuses around 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second. The Sun is so massive that it accounts for 99.86% of the total mass of the entire Solar System. The Sun’s mass consists of 73% hydrogen, 25% helium, and smaller amounts of oxygen, carbon, neon, iron, and other elements. The Sun has a diameter of around 1.39 million kilometers / 864,000 miles. It is the most important source of energy for life on Earth. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, essentially, a hot ball of glowing gases. The Sun is located in the center of the Solar System. When we look in the night sky, we see endless dots of light, every one of them is a star just like our Sun. Yeah, don't go selling your soul.The Sun is a star, the only one we can see during the daytime. So I wrote a long letter to a government man I told him I was born in the summer of Sam He said: "Son I don't think that you understand, I just want to get elected"īut my heart got heavy and my hair grew long I had to get a job just to get along I was down in the gutter bellow, I was down in the gutter bellowĪs my daddy always said Sing a song, how hard can it be just to get along? He said: "Don't go selling your soul. Well I started out strong And my hopes were high I figured I'll be like Bonnie and Clyde 25 beers as an alibi Had to get connected
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