TribunJogja.com – Many people associate stars with sparkling points of light in the night sky.
However, there is a much closer and brighter star that you can see all day long and that is the Sun.
Here are 60 unique facts that not many people know about the sun:
1. The sun is the star at the center of our solar system.
2. The diameter of the Sun is more than 109 times the diameter of the Earth.
3. The sun contains more than 99.8 percent of the total mass of the solar system.
4. The sun has a layered structure, including a core, radiation zone, convection zone, photosphere, chromosphere, and corona.
5. The temperature of the Sun’s core reaches about 15 million degrees Celsius (27 million degrees Fahrenheit).
6. The sun produces energy through the nuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen to helium in its core.
7. Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth.
8. The sun goes through cycles of solar activity, including solar peaks and minima.
9. At the peak of the solar cycle, the sun has more sunspots and other solar activity.
10. The sun is in the middle of its life, it is estimated that it still has about 5 billion years left before it undergoes major changes.
11. The sun’s rotation is faster at the equator than at the poles.
2023-08-28 06:00:34
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