25 facts about the Sun

22.)

At any place on Earth, a total solar eclipse occur on an average of once every 360 years.

11.)

A man weighing 60 kg on Earth would weigh 1,680 on the Sun.

18.)

No total solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes and 40 seconds.

3.)

The Sun's energy output is 386 billion megawatt's.

5.)

Each second, the Sun losses 5 million tons of material.

7.)

If the Sun were to stop producing energy today, it would take 50 million years for significant effects to be felt on Earth.

14.)

The Sun is at a mean distance of 149.60 million km from Earth.

23.)

The Sun is completely gaseous, there is no solid surface on the Sun.

1.)

The Sun is one among the 200 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

10.)

The Sun is one among the 6,000 stars, which is visible to naked eye from the Earth.

12.)

The Sun makes up 99.86% of the mass of the solar system.

17.)

The Sun orbits around the center of our Milky Way galaxy once every 240 million years.

16.)

The Sun rotates on it's own axis about once every 25.38 days.

21.)

The Sun's temperature at it's core is 14 million kelvin.

19.)

The age of the Sun is 4.57 billion years.

6.)

The density of matter at the Sun's core is about 150 times the density of water on earth.

20.)

The expected life time of the Sun is another 5 billion years or so.

9.)

The gravity at the Sun is 28 time that of Earth.

15.)

The light takes 5.5 hours to travel from the Sun to Pluto.

24.)

The light takes 8.3 minutes to travel from the Sun to Earth.

2.)

The mass of our Sun is 1.989x10.30 kg. (Approximately 2 million trillion trillion kilograms)

4.)

The reaction taking place in the Sun is nuclear fusion, same as a Hydrogen bomb.

8.)

The surface area of the Sun is equivalent to that of 11,990 Earth's.

25.)

The volume of the Sun is equivalent to the volume of 1.3 million Earth's.

13.)

There are more than one color of Sun's (large stars). Such as red, blue, green, a mix of colors and more.