KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -The sun is the most perfectly round natural object known in the universe, say scientists who have conducted precise measurements of its dimensions. As a spinning ball of gas, astronomers had always expected our nearest star to bulge slightly at its equator, making it very slightly flying-saucer shaped.

Detailed explanation-2: -The reason that the Sun and most large objects in space, like stars, planets, and large moons are round is that they formed and collapsed under the force of their own gravity. Our Solar System started as a giant, spinning, cloud of gas and dust that slowly collapsed under its own gravity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Solar observatory provides crispest view yet of sun’s shape.

Detailed explanation-4: -The sun is nearly a perfect sphere. Its equatorial diameter and its polar diameter differ by only 6.2 miles (10 km). The mean radius of the sun is 432, 450 miles (696, 000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864, 938 miles (1.392 million km).

Detailed explanation-5: -The Sun is a star. There are lots of stars in the universe, but the Sun is the closest one to Earth, and it’s the only one in our solar system. It is the center of our solar system. The Sun is a hot ball of glowing gases.