GK
THE UNIVERSE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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False
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True
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Our Sun is an average sized star: there are smaller stars and larger stars, even up to 100 times larger. Many other solar systems have multiple suns, while ours just has one. Our Sun is 864, 000 miles in diameter and 10, 000 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface.
Detailed explanation-2: -The sun is a big ball of gas and plasma. Most of the gas 91 percent is hydrogen. It is converted into energy in the sun’s core. The energy moves outward through the interior layers, into the sun’s atmosphere, and is released into the solar system as heat and light.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Sun is the biggest object in our solar system, with a distance of 695, 508 kilometres from centre to surface. It contains 99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system and could contain roughly 1.3 million Earths. The Sun is an average-sized star.