How much is the sun?

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.
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How much sun is in the world?

There are likely to be many more planetary systems out there waiting to be discovered! Our Sun is just one of about 200 billion stars in our galaxy. That gives scientists plenty of places to hunt for exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system.
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How much is the Sun than Earth?

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. Earth is about the size of an average sunspot!
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How much is the Sun in the sky?

The Sun spans about a half of a degree in the sky. Its angular size is about equal to that of the moon, because while the Sun's diameter is about 400 times larger than the moon's, the Sun is 400 times further from Earth.
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Why is the Sun hot?

The core of the sun is so hot and there is so much pressure, nuclear fusion takes place: hydrogen is changed to helium. Nuclear fusion creates heat and photons (light). The sun's surface is about 6,000 Kelvin, which is 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit (5,726 degrees Celsius).
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Why is the Sun white?

When we direct solar rays through a prism, we see all the colors of the rainbow come out the other end. That's to say we see all the colors that are visible to the human eye. "Therefore the sun is white," because white is made up of all the colors, Baird said.
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How big is the biggest sun?

The largest known star in the universe, UY Scuti is a variable hypergiant with a radius around 1,700 times larger than the radius of the sun. To put that in perspective, the volume of almost 5 billion suns could fit inside a sphere the size of UY Scuti.
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What color is our sun?

The color of the sun is white. The sun emits all colors of the rainbow more or less evenly and in physics, we call this combination "white". That is why we can see so many different colors in the natural world under the illumination of sunlight.
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Is anything bigger than the sun?

The size of our sun

There are bigger stars, and there are smaller stars. We have found stars that are 100 times bigger in diameter than our sun. Truly, those stars are enormous. We have also seen stars that are just one tenth the size of our sun.
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Is the Sun getting bigger?

Because the Sun continues to 'burn' hydrogen into helium in its core, the core slowly collapses and heats up, causing the outer layers of the Sun to grow larger. This has been going on since soon after the Sun was formed 4.5 billion years ago.
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How many suns are in the Milky Way?

The Milky Way has a mass of 1.5 trillion suns.
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Is the Sun heavy or light?

Our Sun contains 99.8% of the Solar System's mass, but gets lighter every day. When enough time goes by, its changes will render Earth uninhabitable.
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Is there only 1 sun in the universe?

There are billions of stars larger or smaller than SUn in the Galaxy..But we call them stars only.. So we have only one Sun.
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Does the Sun move?

Yes, the Sun does move in space. The Sun and the entire Solar System revolve around the center of our own Galaxy - the Milky Way.
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How much longer will the Sun last?

So our Sun is about halfway through its life. But don't worry. It still has about 5,000,000,000—five billion—years to go. When those five billion years are up, the Sun will become a red giant.
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What's the sun's real name?

The Sun has been called by many names. The Latin word for Sun is “sol,” which is the main adjective for all things Sun-related: solar. Helios, the Sun god in ancient Greek mythology, lends his name to many Sun-related terms as well, such as heliosphere and helioseismology.
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Can astronauts look at the sun?

The shuttle/ISS Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) aka spacesuit incorporates a gold-film plated sun visor to protect the astronaut's vision when looking in the general direction of the sun. It is called the Extravehicular Visor Assembly.
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What color is the brain?

The human brain color physically appears to be white, black, and red-pinkish while it is alive and pulsating. Images of pink brains are relative to its actual state. The brains we see in movies are detached from the blood and oxygen flow result to exhibit white, gray, or have a yellow shadow.
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How big is a black hole?

Stellar black holes, the most common, have a mass 20 times the size of the sun but are condensed in a 10-mile diameter sphere. Finally, supermassive black holes have masses of more than one million suns compressed into a sphere as giant as the solar system.
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What is inside the sun?

There are three main parts to the Sun's interior: the core, the radiative zone, and the convective zone. The core is at the center. It the hottest region, where the nuclear fusion reactions that power the Sun occur. Moving outward, next comes the radiative (or radiation) zone.
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What color Is A Mirror?

A mirror might look silver because it's usually depicted that way in books or movies. However, it's actually the color of whatever is reflected onto it. A perfect mirror has specular reflection, meaning it reflects all light in a single direction equal to what it receives.
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What color is space?

If we add up all the light coming from galaxies (and the stars within them), and from all the clouds of gas and dust in the Universe, we'd end up with a colour very close to white, but actually a little bit 'beige'.
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