The sun Aurora and dalton

Relation to sun *We are the sun. *We are 0.0 away from the sun.

Alpha Centauri * The sun is 4.22 light-years away from the nearest star. *is made up of three stars

Where is the sun? *on the inner rim of the Orion Arm, near the Sagittarius Arm. *The Mass is x 10^30 kg *the sun is gas, it doesn’t rotate like a solid planet would. *The solar system is moving around the milky way galaxy *velocity of 828,000 km/hr

Diameter of the sun in miles, kilometers, and earth diameters *864,575.9 mi * 1 Million km * 1,392,684 km

Temperature and age of sun *The sun is 5,777 k *The temperature rises from the surface of the sun inward towards the very hot center of the sun where it reaches about 27,000,000 Fahrenheit (15,000,000 Celsius). *Began roughly 4.6 billion years ago, will continue for about another 4.5 – 5.5 billion years.

Odd facts about the sun! *One million earths could fit in the sun. *The sun contains 99.86% of the mass in the Solar System. *The sun is an almost perfect sphere. *The temperature inside the sun can reach 15 million degrees Celsius. *Eventually, the sun will consume the earth. *The sun will one day be about the size of the earth. * The sun can appear blue.