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The Sun sits in the center of the Solar
System. It is essentially a whole ball of fluids that are moving continuously.
The core of the Sun is actively converting Hydrogen atoms to Helium atoms and
therefore it's mass is everchanging.
The Sun's Vital Stats...
Radius | 695,510km (109 Earth Radii) |
Mass | 1.989 x 1033 g (332,946 Earth masses) |
Volume | 1.412 x 1033 cm3 (1.3 million Earths) |
Density (Core) | 151.3g/cm3 |
(Mean) | 1.409 g/cm3 |
Pressure (Core) | 2.334 x 1011 bars |
(Photosphere) | 0.0001 bar |
Temperature (Core) | 15,557,000 oK |
(Photosphere) | 5,780 oK |
(Corona) | 2,000,000 oK to 3,000,000 oK |
Luminosity | 3.854 x 1033 erg/s |
Solar Constant | 1.368 x 106 erg/s/cm2 = 1,368 W/m3 |
Principal Chemical Constituents | Hydrogen - 92.1% |
(by number of atoms) | Helium - 7.8% |
All others - 0.1% | |
Type of Star | G2 |
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