What you can learn from the sun

The Sun is personified in many mythologies: the Greeks called it Helios and the Romans called it Sol.

Welcome to your blog post.The Sun is known as a yellow dwarf star and a main sequence star .So the Sun is at the higher end of this group.The Sun Is a as a G2V type star.

Scientists estimate that the Sun is about 4.5 billion years old, or approximately halfway through its life cycle.

The sun will end its life cycle by expanding to become a red giant, puff off its outer layers, and then settle down as a compact white dwarf star, then slowly cooling down for trillions of years.

The Sun is at an average distance of about 93,000,000 miles away from Earth.

It is so far away that light from the Sun, traveling at a speed of 186,000 miles and 300,000 kilometers per second, takes about 8 minutes to reach us.

Facts

• Our sun is about 432,690 miles big

• The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system.

• Over one million Earth’s could fit inside the Sun.

Vocabulary

Red giant-a very large star of high luminosity and low surface temperature.

Nebula-a giant cloud of dust and gas in space.

White dwarf-a small very dense star that is typically the size of a planet.

Planetary nebula-a ring-shaped nebula formed by an expanding shell of gas around an aging star.

Black dwarf-a theoretical stellar remnant, specifically a white dwarf that has cooled sufficiently that it no longer emits significant heat or light.

Get Inspired

“Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” “Sunshine will guide your heart even on the most darkest of days.” “Every morning, the rising sun invites and inspires us to begin again.”