The sun
Some facts and images of our own Sun
Astronomical Profile
| Age: | 4.6 Billion Years |
| Type: | Yellow Dwarf (G2V) |
| Diameter: | 1,392,684 km |
| Equatorial Circumference: | 4,370,005.6 km |
| Mass: | 1.99 × 10^30 kg (333,060 Earths) |
| Surface Temperature: | 5,500 °C |
Some interesting facts:
- Our Sun is one of about four hundred billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy .
- At its center the Sun reaches temperatures of 15 million °C.
- The Sun is all the colors mixed together, this appears white to our eyes.
- The Sun is mostly composed of hydrogen (70%) and Helium (28%).
- The Sun is a main-sequence G2V star (or Yellow Dwarf).
- The Sun is 4.6 billion years old.
- The Sun is 109 times wider than the Earth and 330,000 times as massive.
