As the brightest light on the block I thought I would add a page with some interesting fact about our Sun.
Fun and amazing Star Facts:
- Our Sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy.
- There are over 100 billion known galaxies in our universe.
- Yes there are more stars than grains of sand on the earth.
- Our Sun is a small star almost 1 million miles in diameter.
- The Sun is 93 million miles from Earth.
- The Sun makes energy by the fusion of hydrogen into Helium
- The sun burns up 600 millions tons of hydrogen per second.
- It will take 7 billion years for the hydrogen to run out.
- 1 million Earth's would fit inside the Sun.
- The Star Beta Caraday is over 5 million times larger than our Sun.
- Betelgeuse is 300 time larger than Beta Caraday and if it was our sun it would engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
- VY Canis Majoris shown to the right is the largest Star discovered and is 1 billion times the size of our sun. 1.7 billion miles in diameter.
Fun and amazing Star Facts:
- Our Sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy.
- There are over 100 billion known galaxies in our universe.
- Yes there are more stars than grains of sand on the earth.
- Our Sun is a small star almost 1 million miles in diameter.
- The Sun is 93 million miles from Earth.
- The Sun makes energy by the fusion of hydrogen into Helium
- The sun burns up 600 millions tons of hydrogen per second.
- It will take 7 billion years for the hydrogen to run out.
- 1 million Earth's would fit inside the Sun.
- The Star Beta Caraday is over 5 million times larger than our Sun.
- Betelgeuse is 300 time larger than Beta Caraday and if it was our sun it would engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
- VY Canis Majoris shown to the right is the largest Star discovered and is 1 billion times the size of our sun. 1.7 billion miles in diameter.
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