10 SHOCKING FACTS about our Sun that will blow your mind
Photo Credit: NASA Want to know more about the Sun? Here are the ten amazing facts about the solar system's star that will take you by surprise. Read here to get a clearer concept about the Sun.
Photo Credit: NASA The Sun is about 100 times wider than Earth and roughly about 10 times wider than Jupiter. If that's too big a number to wrap your head around, consider this: If the sun were as big as the front door, then Earth would be about the size of a nickel.
Photo Credit: NASA The Sun is the only star in our solar system, located at its center, and its gravity holds the solar system together.
Photo Credit: NASA The Sun is made of super-hot, electrically charged gas called plasma. This plasma rotates at different speeds on different parts of the Sun. The Sun completes its one rotation at its equator equal to 25 days on Earth.
Photo Credit: NASA The Sun doesn’t actually have a solid surface because it’s a ball of plasma.
Photo Credit: NASA Above the Sun’s surface are its thin chromosphere and the huge corona (crown).
Photo Credit: NASA The Sun doesn’t have its own moon but it is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, millions of asteroids, and perhaps three trillion comets and icy bodies.
Photo Credit: Pexels There are several spacecraft that are on the mission to explore the Sun, those are Parker Solar Probe, STEREO, Solar Orbiter, SOHO, Solar Dynamics Observatory, Hinode, IRIS, and Wind.
Photo Credit: Pexels The Sun is believed to be surrounded by a disk of gas and dust early in its history when the solar system was first forming 4.6 billion years ago. Some of that dust is still around today, in several dust rings that circle the Sun.
Photo Credit: Pexels Sun is the source of life. Nothing can survive on the sun but it is an important source of energy and life on the Earth.
Photo Credit: Pexels The temperature in the Sun's core is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius) – hot enough to sustain nuclear fusion with ease.
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