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The Sun is a ball of hot gases. By weight, it is 70 percent hydrogen; 28 percent helium;
1.5 percent carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen; and 0.5 percent other elements.
The Sun's
temperature is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the surface and 27,000,000 degrees
Fahrenheit at the center.
The average distance from Earth to the sun is 93,000,000
miles.
Light travels in 8 1/2 minutes from the sun to Earth.
The diameter of the sun is
870,000 mile: 109 times larger than Earth's. Its volume is big enough to hold over 1
million Earths.
The Sun gives us heat, light, food, and the air that we breathe. It powers the
atmosphere to give us the wind and rain.
Without the Sun, Earth
would be a dark, cold, and dead place.
The Sun's temperature is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the surface and 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit at the center.
The average distance from Earth to the sun is 93,000,000 miles.
Light travels in 8 1/2 minutes from the sun to Earth.
The diameter of the sun is 870,000 mile: 109 times larger than Earth's. Its volume is big enough to hold over 1 million Earths.
The Sun gives us heat, light, food, and the air that we breathe. It powers the atmosphere to give us the wind and rain.
Without the Sun, Earth would be a dark, cold, and dead place.
