Sun is a star located right at the central point of our solar system. It is one of several reasons for which life exists on our blue planet, the Earth. It is also responsible for the different weathers we experience on Earth. It is a yellow dwarf star. The word ‘dwarf’ should not be misleading because though it is a dwarf compared to other bigger stars in universe, it is actually humungous when compared to our Earth! This article lists some interesting facts about sun. We are pretty sure that you already know a few or most of them but consider it as a refresher list!

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1. Many ancient cultures worshiped the sun as a deity (Egyptian, Indo-European, and Meso-American.)

2. A scientist and philosopher from modern-day Turkey called Anaxagoras was the first to suggest that the sun is a star, around 450 BC.

3. Our modern day calendar is based on the earth’s movement around the sun.

4. It is 4.5 billion years old.

5. It is a relatively young star, part of a generation known as Population I.

6. It is about halfway through its lifetime.

7. You can fit 1.3 million earths into it.

8. It is the largest object in the solar system.

9. Its mass is 333,000 times that of the earth.

10. It occupies about 99.86 percent of the total mass of the solar system.

11. It is closer to earth than all other stars.

12. It is approximately 391 times as far away from earth as the moon.

13. Its distance from the earth changes at different points during the year.

14. It is 30,000 light years away from the center of The Milky Way.

15. Light from the sun takes eight minutes and twenty seconds to reach the earth.

16. The sun’s gravity anchors earth and all the other planets together in a small space called the solar system.

17. The sun is at the center of the solar system and all planets orbit around it.

18. If the sun weren’t there, the earth would travel in a straight line.

19. Its gravity is 28 times stronger than earth’s gravity.

20. The bubble that surrounds the sun and solar system is called the heliosphere.

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