How Big Is The Sun
To understand the amazing elements of our Sun, you need to get down the basic facts we have an understanding of. So, how big is the Sun?
How Big Is The Sun
Our Sun is a G class sun when compared to other stars we can see in across the Milky Way and universe. This classification means it ranks in the middle of all stars we know of as far as size. Some other stars are as much as 60 times bigger by mass, while some are much smaller as a measure of mass.
Although our Sun may be somewhat average compared to others in the universe, it dominates our solar system. The Sun contains more than 90 percent of all the mass in our solar system. If you took all of the planets, moons and objects just floating around, they wouldn’t even begin to approach the total mass of our Sun. It is big, dense and powerful.
As to pure measurements, the Sun is pretty impressive. It does not have a solid surface, but it is generally considered to have a diameter of 864,900 miles. As a matter of comparison, the Earth has a diameter of some 7,900 miles.
From a mass perspective, the Sun has a mass of 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms! Every second, the Sun converts approximately 5 million tons of matter into energy in the nuclear reaction happening at its core. This energy is expressed throughout the solar system in the form of solar wind, magnetic fields and gravity that keeps the planets orbiting the Sun.
How big is the Sun? Very big, indeed! Taking mass and area together, our planet would fit into the Earth over a million times.
