Sun Facts
| Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years. |
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| Our sun and the surrounding planets orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy once every 250 million years. |
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| Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star. |
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| On its trip around the sun, the earth travels over a million and a half miles per day. |
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| No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes 58 seconds because of the speed at which the sun moves. |
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| Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun. (about 50 000º F) |
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| It takes only 8 minutes for sunlight to travel from the sun to the earth, which also means, if you see the sun go out, it actually went out 8 minutes ago. |
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| In Spit Bergen, Norway at one time of the year the sun shines continuously for three and a half months. |
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| If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be aware of the fact. |
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| For 186 days you can not see the sun in the North Pole. |
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| Every eleven years the magnetic poles of the sun switch. This cycle is called"Solarmax". |
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| Aztecs believed that the sun died every night and needed human blood to give it strength to rise the next day. So they sacrificed 15,000 men a year to appease their sun god, Huitzilopochtli. Most of the victims were prisoners taken in wars, which were sometimes started solely to round up sacrificial victims. |
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| At the distance at which our sun is located from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Earth and the rest of our solar system are moving at a speed of about 170 miles per second around the center. |
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| At its center, the sun has a density of over a hundred times that of water, and a temperature of 10-20 million degrees Celsius. |
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| All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days. |
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| An area of the Sun's surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000 candles. |
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| Your fingernails can turn yellow from wearing nail polish and from the sun. |
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| If the entire solar system were the size of a quarter, the sun would be visible only under a microscope, and the nearest star would be 300 feet away. |
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| The Sun provides our planet with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy every day. |
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| If the earth were the size of a quarter, the sun would be as large as a 9 foot ball and would be located a football field distance from the earth. |
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| More than 1 million earths would fit inside the sun. |
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| 99% of our solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun. |
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| The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth! |
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