25 Facts About The Sun You Probably Didn’t Know y Saagar Parikh
25 Facts About The Sun You Probably
Didn’t KnowBy Saagar Parikh
The Sun accounts for
about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System
Six ten-billionths of the Sun’s atoms are gold Meaning there
is 1.2 sextillion kilograms of gold in
the sun
As passengers on Earth, we are all
carried around the sun at a mean
velocity of 66,600 mph (107,182 km/h)
Your eyes can get
sunburned
To our eyes, in space, the sun would appear
white, not yellow
The sun is the most perfectly round natural
object known in the universe
Isaac Newton developed a
sunlight phobia from staring at
the sun
The American flags placed on the
moon are now white due to
radiation from the sun
Looking at the Sun Can Trigger a
Sneeze in 10 to 35% of people
Partial solar eclipses are hazardous to view
because the eye's pupil is not adapted to
the unusually high visual contrast
The sun is growing and will
eventually consume the
Earth
The Sun is about half
way through its life
The Sun generates solar winds
Light takes eight minutes
to reach us from the Sun
The sun has seasons
Image of the Sun Shot In Ultraviolet/ X-Ray
Spectrums
Some of the Sun’s solar flares
are more powerful than 100 hydrogen
bombs
The sun can cause storms on Earth The storm on the sun causes a type
of storm on the Earth, known as a geomagnetic storm. The most
powerful solar storms send coronal mass ejections (CMEs), containing
charged particles, into space.
The Sun’s gravity is 28 times that of
the Earth
The Sun is almost 110 times the
diameter of the Earth, and about
one million Earth’s could fit inside the
Sun
The Sun is travelling at 220 km per
second
The Sun will eventually
become the size of Earth
The distance between
Earth and Sun changes
The Sun rotates more quickly at its equator than it does close to
its poles
The Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis
(Northern and Southern Lights) are
caused by the interaction of solar winds with Earth’s
atmosphere
The Sun’s core can reach
temperatures of 27 million degrees
F (15 million degrees C)
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