Diameter: 1.3927 Million Km
Average temperature: 5505o C
Distance from the Earth: 147.17 Million Km
Number of natural satellites: 8 Planets, 5 Dwarf Planets and more than 1 million Asteroids, Meteoroids and Comets.
The Sun is the life force of the Solar System. It is the reason for the formation of the Solar System.The whole Solar System is held together by the gravity of the Sun. Along with it being the essential source of life and heat and light on Earth, it causes many stunning effects like the auroras and eclipses.
The Sun is basically the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. It radiates this energy in the form of light, ultraviolet and infrared rays mainly and is the most important source of energy for life on Earth.Source: www.google.com
The Sun is a type of star known as a G-type Main Sequence Star or a Yellow Dwarf. Iw was formed around 4.6 billion years age from the gravitational collapse of matter within the region of a large molecular cloud. Every second, the sun converts about 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium and in the process converts 4 million tons of matter into energy. This energy can take 10,000 to 1,70,000 years to escape its core and is the source of the Sun's heat and light.
Today, the Sun is roughly halfway through its most stable stage. It has not changed dramatically for the past 4 billion years and will remain the same for about another 5 billion years more. After all the hydrogen is over, it will expand drastically swallowing up Mercury and Venus and making the Earth inhabitable.
The Solar System is located in one of the outer arms of the Milky Way Galaxy known as the Orion-Cygnus arm or the Local Spur. It is located 26,660 light years away from the galactic centre and the Sun takes 240 million years to complete a galactic year.
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Aarav Iyer