KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -The Sun is the only star in our solar system. It is the center of our solar system, and its gravity holds the solar system together.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although it’s a star – and our local star at that – our sun doesn’t have a generally accepted and unique proper name in English. We English speakers always just call it the sun. You sometimes hear English-speakers use the name Sol for our sun.

Detailed explanation-3: -Our Sun is an ordinary star, just one among hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. As the only star we can observe in detail, it provides a basis for our understanding of all stars. The Sun is composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium gas.

Detailed explanation-4: -To go by broader scientific principles, the proper names of the moon and sun are “Luna” and “Sol, ‘’ respectively. These are derived from the Latin names of these heavenly bodies, personified as gods in ancient Roman myth.

Detailed explanation-5: -Who discovered that the Sun was a star? Many people’s work was needed to prove that the Sun is a star. The first person we know of to suggest that the Sun is a star up close (or, conversely, that stars are Suns far away) was Anaxagoras, around 450 BC.