Facts About The Sun

PowerPoint Show by Andrew

Light from the sun takes approximately 8 minutes to reach the Earth. Travel speed of the light is 186,282 miles per second.

The sun only lines up like this twice per year.

Watching the sunset and or rise at least 2-3 times per week can fight off depression and help you live longer.

If you’re pulling an all-nighter, have a 15-20 minute nap just before the sun comes up and your body will reset itself.

One third of the human population sneezes when they look at the sun. It is called a photic sneeze reflex, a genetic quirk that remains unexplained by the science.

Those who spend more time in the sun are happier, more optimistic and less likely to suffer from depression.

If the Sun was scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky way would be the size of the continental United States.

If God created the sun on the fourth day…. how had four days passed? Probably those were the only days of the world existence passed in the pitch darkness…

The sun is actually a greenish-blue color, but earth’s atmosphere scatters certain color wavelengths, making it look yellow.

The last time the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

If you were able to fold a piece of paper 50 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the sun.

If Earth was a cherry tomato in your hand, the Sun would be .3 miles away and 13 feet wide.

Chicago weighs 300 lbs more when the sun is out, due to the force of the sunlight impacting the ground. Did you think light was weightless?

The Sun is shrinking by 5 feet an hour. Has it been like this forever? Are we safe? Probably, because the sun is massive.

The sunlight allergy the children have in the film “The Others” is based on a real disease, xeroderma pigmentosum.

It takes at least 4,000 years for light to leave the interior of the sun. It’s all due to the high density of the solar plasma.

In certain places of Alaska, the sun does not set for the entire month of June.

Every 13 years, the suns magnetic field flips e.g. North becomes South and South Becomes North. Fortunately, it does not have a harmful impact on people.

The Sun is an almost a perfect sphere.