15 Facts about Sun: The Star that Owns it All »

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Our Sun ( ☉ , सूर्य ) is not just a star at the centre of our Solar System but also the engine that powers everything around it. It’s gigantic, hot and its gravitational force is what keeping everything in place.

Here are some interesting facts about our very own star Sun:

Sun’s radius is 1700 times smaller than the radius of the biggest known star UY Scuti (Pronunciation: U Y Scu-taai) which is a red supergiant in the constellation Scutum

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It’s 109 times the diameter of the Earth

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The diameter of the Earth at the equator is about 43 km larger than the pole-to-pole diameter. Earth has an equatorial diameter of 12,756 km

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Other elements present on the Sun are Oxygen: 1%, Carbon: 0.3%, Neon: 0.2% and Iron 0.2%

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And the Sun will continue to do so for another few billion years

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Every second, 4 million tons of matter gets converted into energy in Sun’s core. This energy takes between 10,000 to 170,000 years to escape from its core and just around 8 minutes to reach Earth from its surface!

This is because of the high density of the Sun’s core

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Some of the heat in Sun’s corona is known to be from Magnetic Reconnection. In Magnetic Reconnection, magnetic energy converts into kinetic energy, thermal energy, and particle acceleration

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