Did you know that the Sun is a bigger star, and it will eventually kill all life on earth? Find out when and some other bind shifting and chilling facts about the Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Sola System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic fied, via a dynamo process. The Sun is known as a main sequence star, spherical is shape and primarily of the two gases hydrogen and helium.

So now let's delve into the chilly parts of sun facts.

· The Sun weighs an incredible 1,989,100,000,000,000,000,000 billion kilograms. That’s roughly the weight of 330,060 Earths.

· The Sun is not the biggest type of star in the universe, but it is definitely larger than most. In terms of size, the Sun has a diameter of roughly 1.4 million kilometers (870,000 miles), this is almost 110 times the diameter of the Earth. What this means is that about one million Earth’s could fit inside the Sun.

· The Sun alone contains 99.8% of the total mass in the Solar System. It has a mass of around 330,000 times that of Earth. It is three quarters hydrogen and most of its remaining mass is helium.

· The surface area of the Sun is 11,990 times that of Earth.



· The Sun is all the colours mixed together, this appears white to our eyes.

· One day the Sun will consume the Earth. The Sun will continue to burn for about 130 million years after it burns through all of its hydrogen, instead burning helium. During this time it will expand to such a size that it will engulf Mercury, Venus, and Earth. When it reaches this point, it will have become a red giant star.

· The energy created by the Sun’s core is nuclear fusion. This huge amount of energy is produced when four hydrogen nuclei are combined into one helium nucleus.

· The Sun is almost a perfect sphere. Considering the sheer size of the Sun, there is only a 10 km difference in its polar and equatorial diameters – this makes it the closest thing to a perfect sphere observed in nature.



· The Sun is travelling at 220 km per second. It is around 24,000-26,000 light-years from the galactic centre and it takes the Sun approximately 225-250 million years to complete one orbit of the centre of the Milky Way.

· There are spacecraft observing the Sun right now.
The most famous spacecraft sent to observe the Sun is the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, built by NASA and ESA, and launched in December, 1995. Nigeria is hoping to send its own spacecraft to monitor the sun soon. *goof*

· The Sun will eventually be about the size of Earth. Once the Sun has completed its red giant phase, it will collapse. Its huge mass will be retained, but it will have a volume similar to that of Earth. When that happens, it will be known as a white dwarf.

· It takes eight minutes for light to reach the Earth from the Sun. The average distance from the Sun to the Earth is about 150 million km.

· However, it takes millions of years to travel from the Sun’s core to its surface.




· The Sun is halfway through its life. At 4.5 billion years old, the Sun has burned off around half of its hydrogen stores and has enough left to continue burning hydrogen for another 5 billion years.

· Currently the Sun is a yellow dwarf star.

· When all of the Hydrogen in the Sun has burned up, it will continue to burn all the Helium within it for about 130 million years. During this time it will expand to the point that it will swallow Mercury, Venus and the Earth. By this point our Sun will have become a Red Giant.

· The distance between Earth and Sun changes. This is because the Earth travels on a elliptical orbit path around the Sun. The distance between the two ranges from 147 to 152 million km.

· The Sun rotates in the opposite direction to Earth with the Sun rotating from west to east instead of east to west like Earth.

· The Sun rotates more quickly at its equator than it does close to its poles. This is known as differential rotation.

· The Sun has a powerful magnetic field. When magnetic energy is released by the Sun during magnetic storms, solar flares occur which we see on Earth as sunspots.

· The reason they appear dark is due to their temperature being much lower than surrounding areas.

· Temperatures inside the Sun can reach 15 million degrees Celsius. Energy is generated through nuclear fusion in the Sun’s core – this is when hydrogen converts to helium – and because objects generally expand, the Sun would explode like an enormous bomb if it wasn’t for it’s tremendous gravitational pull.

· The Sun generates solar winds. These are ejections of plasma (extremely hot charged particles) that originate in the layer of the Sun know as the corona and they can travel through the solar system at up to 450 km per second.

· The atmosphere of the Sun is composed of three layers: the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona.

· The Sun is a main sequence star with surface temperatures between 5,000 and 5,700 degrees celsius (9,000 and 10,300 degrees fahrenheit).

· The sun is actually one of trillions of stars in the universe.

· The official classification for our Sun is G V star.

· The sun has a another common name: Sol. This name originates from the ancient Roman’s god of the Sun, Sol. This alternate name is where we get the term “solar system,” which literally means system of the Sun.



· A solar eclipse occurs when the moon is between the Sun and the Earth.

· The Sun is heating up, and will kill all life on Earth. 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 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.



· There is a specialist type of telescope called a ‘coronagraph’, with which you can view things very close to Sun like its corona, other planets and sun-grazing comets. It works by using a disk to block out the Sun’s bright surface.

· If you were to take a journey to the Sun in a normal airliner flying at its regular speed (about 644km/h), it would take you 20 years to get there without stopping.

· Unlike the Earth, which makes a rotation once every 24 hours, the Sun rotates on its axis once every 25 days. Well, once every 25 days at its equator, and once every 36 days at its poles.



So the holy book didn't lie when it said the sun will turn red into blood at the end time. The world would prolly self extinct.