SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -The Sun weighs about 333, 000 times as much as Earth. It is so large that about 1, 300, 000 planet Earths can fit inside of it.

Detailed explanation-2: -About 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun, according to NASA’s statistics (opens in new tab). The mass of the sun is 1.989 x 1030 kilograms, about 333, 000 times the mass of the Earth. The sun contains 99.8 percent of the mass of the entire solar system, leading astronomers Imke de Pater and Jack J.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Sun has a diameter of about 1, 392, 000 km ( 865, 000 miles). Earth’s diameter is 12, 742 km (7, 917.5 miles). The diameter of the Sun is thus 109 times as great as the Earth’s diameter. In other words, you could line up 109 Earths across the face of the Sun.

Detailed explanation-4: -One AU, about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers), represents the average distance from the Sun to the Earth. It would take an airliner more than 20 years to fly that distance-and that’s just a one-way ticket. (That’s traveling at about 400 mph or 644 kilometers per hour.)

Detailed explanation-5: -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.