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- Sun: Facts - NASA Science
Our Sun: Facts Our Sun is a 4 5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s our solar system’s only star Without the Sun’s energy, life as we know it could not exist on our home planet
- Sun - NASA Science
The Sun is the star at the heart of our solar system Its gravity holds the solar system together, keeping everything – from the biggest planets to the smallest bits of debris – in its orbit
- In Depth | Sun – NASA Solar System Exploration
The Sun is a 4 5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s our solar system’s only star Without the Sun’s energy, life as we know it could not exist on our home planet From our vantage point on Earth, the Sun may appear like an
- Sun | Definition, Composition, Properties, Temperature . . .
Sun, star around which Earth and the other components of the solar system revolve It is the dominant body of the system, constituting more than 99 percent of its entire mass The Sun is the source of an enormous amount of energy, a portion of which provides Earth with the light and heat necessary to support life
- The Sun: Facts, size, and fate of Earth’s blazing star
Facts about our Sun, including its distance from Earth, what the Sun is made of, and how long it would take to drive there (hint: a long time!)
- Meet the Sun - Center for Science Education
The Sun is a yellow dwarf star at the center of our solar system Earth and all other objects in our solar system orbit around the Sun due to gravity – the Sun contains over 98% of all mass in the solar system and so exerts a strong gravitational pull Like other stars, the Sun is a dense ball of gas that creates energy through nuclear fusion reactions in the core, creating helium atoms from
- The Sun, our Solar System’s star | The Planetary Society
We study the Sun to learn about how stars work, and to help protect our civilization from solar storms
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