Sun Facts – Interesting and Fun Facts About the Sun
Sun facts: The Sun is a star at the center of the Solar System. It is the most important source of energy for life on Earth, without it life wouldn’t exist. We all enjoy the sun, but how much do we know about the scorching ball of fire in the sky? Dig in for exciting facts about the Sun.
Fun Facts About the Sun
The sun at its center can reach a temperature of about 15 million degrees Celsius.
Sun generates solar winds. They are hot charged particles that originate in Corona (layer of the sun) and travel through the Solar System at up to 450 km per second.
Sun’s atmosphere has three layers namely, the photosphere, the chromospheres and the corona.
Sun is not unique; it is one of the trillions of stars in the Universe.
Solar eclipse happens when the moon is between the Sun and the Earth.
Six ten-billionths of the sun is gold.
We humans travel around the sun at a mean velocity of 66,600 mph or 107,182 km/hr. Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
All of the world’s energy needs can be met with 1/10,000th of the light from the sun that falls on earth each day, according to the inventor and futurists Ray Kurzweil.
The star that is closest to out sun, Proxima Centauri, is still much farther away than Pluto.
Isaac Newton developed a sunlight phobia from staring at the Sun.
