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15 Facts about the Sun – How big is the Sun?

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Sun is the main object in our solar system. All the planets in our solar system rotate around the Sun. Sun a star. We do not know much about the sun because it is very difficult for humans to reach on Sun now but Scientists at Nasa are preparing to touch the sun in near future. In this post, you will read some interesting facts about the Sun.

Facts about the Sun

facts about the Sun
  • Sun is composed of two main elements Hydrogen which is 70% of the total and Helium which is 28% of the total.
  • Sun is approx 4.603 billion years old. Scientists said that the sun will continuously burn for the next 5 billion.
  • Sun is a star so it is categorized under the yellow dwarf star.
  • The surface temperature of the sun is 5500 °C and the temperature in the center of the Sun reaches on 15 million °C.
  • Sun is the biggest object in our solar system and it consists of 99.8% of the total mass of our solar system.
  • As we know Sun is a star but it is not the biggest star in the universe. It is small in size in comparison to Red Giants Star but is a bit bigger than the dwarf stars.
  • Red Giant Star, Betelgeuse is 700 times bigger than our Sun.
  • Just in one second, the Sun loses 1.5 million tons of cosmic material to the solar wind.
  • And in one second 4 million tons of material is converted into energy in the Sun.
  • It will take 130 million years to burn all the hydrogen in the Sun.
  • The time taken by the Sunlight to reach the Earth is 8 minutes.
  • Everything in the universe is in continuous motion. And the sun is also on the motion. It is traveling in the universe with a speed of  220 kilometers per second (136 miles per second ).
  • One day the sun also be a red giant star and it will consume Mercury, Venus, and Earth. Do not panic, it will take millions of years. Till then humans would be shifted to the other portion of the universe.

How big is the Sun?

  • According to NASA Scientists, if the sun would hollow, one million Earth would be required to fill it.
  • The mass of the sun is equal to 333,000 times the mass of Earth.

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Amazing Facts About Earth

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Earth, everyone knows what is earth. It is the only planet in the solar system, where the life is happening. Till now humans just explored the 42.5% of the earth. 80% of land and only 5% of the oceans. There are so many things to learn about the earth. So in this article, we  share some amazing facts about earth.

Amazing facts about earth

amazing facts about earth

Earth is approximately 4.543 billion years old.

71% of the surface on the earth is covered with water and only 29% is land.

33% of the land on earth is desert area.

20% of land is covered with mountains.

Only 1.77 % area of earth has freshwater.

1/6 land on the earth is property of the Queen of United Kingdom.

It is third planet from Sun in solar system.

In 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds it completes the rotation on its axis.

It is 150,289,394 kilometers ( 93,385,500 miles) far from the Sun.

Earth is the fifth biggest planet in the solar system.

Light takes 8 minutes and 19 seconds to reach Earth from Sun.

It is the home of 8.1 Billion Humans.

In the early days, the earth looked purple because of the formation of bacteria.

Gravity is not constant in every place on earth.

Humans are the most intelligent as well as fool species on this planet.

The moon is natural satellite of  earth.

Earth is covered with stardust (cosmic dust). 

Like every object in the universe, the earth is also in continuous motion.

The Wettest place on earth is Cherrapunji India.

Dried place on the earth is the Atacama Desert of Chile and Peru.

The hottest place  on the earth is El Azizia, Libya 

The coldest place on the earth is Antarctica.

Mount Everest is the highest point  and Mariana Trench is the deepest point of the earth

200 million years ago there is only one supercontinent called Pangaea.

Kilauea volcano Hawaii is the most active volcano on the earth.

Bat are the smallest mammal and blue whales are the biggest mammals on the earth.

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Unknown facts about universe

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Form the old time’s universe is a mystery for humans. Everything in the universe attracts humans. Humans have an interest in learning about the universe from the old times. In every decade, humans have some unique scientists that helps humans to learn new things about the universe with their researches. I hope you have the curiosity to learn new thing about the universe. Below we are sharing with you some unknown facts about universe.

Unknown facts about universe

Unknown facts about universe
  1. There is a massive cloud of Alcohol 10,000 light years away from us.
  2. If we compress earth to the size of marble it would by collapse itself and become a black hole.
  3. 90% of the mass of our body is stardust.
  4. According to the estimation of Astronauts  275 million new stars are born every day.
  5. Our Solar system takes 225 million years to rotate around the Milky Way.
  6. Japan (2011) earth-quack shortened the day by 1.8 microseconds.
  7. The first person who looked into space was Galileo.
  8. There is no sound in space.
  9. There is an exoplanet 33 light years from us. which is covered in burning ice.
  10. According to Astronauts smell of space is like hot metal, welding fumes and seared steak.
  11. Moondust is very soft and smells like gunpowder.
  12. Its impossible to get to the edge of the universe, if someone travel in a straight line, he would come back to the point where you began.
  13. We can only measure 25% of the universe because the remaining 75% universe is in form of dark matter and dark energy.
  14. The average distance between one star to another is 20 million million miles (32.1869 million million kilometres).
  15. Oldest known star is Red giant HE 1523-0901. The age of the star is 13.2 billion years.
  16. It will take 10 corers (10 million) years to erase the footprints of Astronauts on the moon.
  17. Astronauts’ height increase by 2 inches because of the absence of gravity.
  18. Everything in the universe is in continuous motion. Nothing is stable out there.
  19. Dark matter is the bonding element of the universe. It acts like a glue. 
  20. The age of the Sun is more than 4 billion years.
  21. The brightness of sun increase by 10% after every a billion year.

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Star of south

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One of the largest diamond in the world is ‘star of south’. It was discovered by a salve girl name Rosa, Who give it to her master.The master rewarded her by granting her freedom and pension for life

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