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Diameter of Sun is 102 or 109 times bigger than that of the Earth? Might well be a typo.
The sun is the largest object in the solar system, the tempeture of the sun is 5500 to 6000 degrees but some stars are hotter. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/ This is the website were i got my answers. And from http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/workshop/thompson/facts.html
The Romans called the sun Sol, which in English means sun. In ancient Greece, the sun was called Helios.
this was verified http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus
1.3 million earths could fit in to the sun
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970518a.html and
http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/education/ask/index.html?quid=6
The Sun’s core is around 13 600 000 degrees Celsius!
Light from Sun takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth.
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/space/sun.html
http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/facts-about-sun-3283.html
Uranus has 27 moons.
http://www.kidsastronomy.com/uranus.htm
http://www.spacestationinfo.com/uranus-rings.htm
Over one million earths can fit on the Sun. Sources- http://www.wikipedia.com, http://www.funshun.com.
It feels like the Sun has been around forever, unchanging, but that’s not true.
The Sun is actually slowly heating up.
It’s becoming 10% more luminous every billion years.
In fact, within just a billion years, the heat from the Sun will be so intense that liquid water won’t exist on the surface of the Earth.
Life on Earth as we know it will be gone forever. Bacteria might still live on underground, but the surface of the planet will be scorched and uninhabited.
It’ll take another 7.6 billion years for the Sun to reach its red giant phase before it actually expands to the point that it engulfs the Earth and destroys the entire planet.
http://www.scientificamarica.com
http://www.thetechhereld.com
http://www.universetoday.com
The sun is more than one million times the size of the earth. It would take 100,000,000,000 tons of dynamite blowing up per second to compare to the sun. The sun contains 99.89 of the mass of the solar system.
Wikipidia
random history.com
The Sun is one out of billions of stars. The Sun is the closest star to Earth. The Sun rotates once every 27 days. The Sun formed over four and a half billion years ago. You may think the Sun will die soon, but it will keep shining for at least another five billion years.
http://nineplanets.org/sol.html