20 Interesting Facts about the Sun
Interesting Rare Facts about the Sun
Sun is the largest star at the center of the solar system. The most important source of energy for all living things on Earth is from the Sun. Here are some surprising facts about the Sun that we didn’t know.
20 Interesting Facts about the Sun
1. The Sun is a spherical ball made of helium and hydrogen atoms. Sun is a star for our earth and other planets.
2. A star is a mass of high mass within which nuclear fusion and fission must take place. Sun has all these qualities so we call Sun as Nakshatra.
3. There are many stars in this universe just like our sun.
4. It is called Sunday and Katiravan. Apart from this, Kathiravan has many Tamil names like Pagalavan, Anali, Veyon, Aadavan, Paridi, Iravi. Surya is the vernacular name of Kathiravan.
5. Sun is 4.603 billion years old. It takes 8.3 minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.
6. The Sun is now almost halfway through the most stable part of his life. It has not changed dramatically for over four billion years, and will remain very stable for another five billion years.
7. The Sun is about 148.06 million kilometers from the Earth.
8. The Sun’s gravitational force is 28 times that of Earth’s. The Sun makes up 99.86% of the total mass of the solar system.
9. This sun is so big that almost 1,30,000 earth like our earth can fit inside the sun.
10. A scientist and philosopher known as Anaxagoras from present-day Turkey first proposed the sun as a star in 450 BC.
11. Astronomers say that after 130 million years the Sun will swallow our Earth. Because the hydrogen atoms in it are burning and the sun starts to expand. Due to this Sun will swallow Mercury, Venus and our Earth.
12. The sun rotates from west to east. It is estimated that it would take 225-300 million years to complete its orbit around the Milky Way.
13. Our sun can be called a yellow star. Its temperature ranges from about 5000°C to 5700°C.
14. The true color of the sun is pale yellow. The sun’s rays are scattered by particles in our Earth’s atmosphere and appear yellow, orange, and red to our eyes.
15. The Sun reverses its magnetic poles every 11 years. That means the North Pole becomes the South Pole and the South Pole becomes the North Pole.
16. The sun rotates on its axis every 26 days. The sun travels at a speed of 220 kilometers per second.
17. If there was no sun, the Earth would travel in a straight line.
18. The calendar we use now is based on the movement of the Earth around the sun.
19. Many ancient cultures, such as Egyptian, Indo-European, and Meso-American, worshiped the sun as a deity.
20. The Sun is 24,000-26,000 light-years from the galactic center.
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