The Universe is Way Bigger Than You Think part2 - The Sun

Our sun is a G-type star which means it is fusing hydrogen into helium producing huge amounts of energy which make life on Earth possible

On many occasions, I have heard people refer to Sun as a young star but actually Sun is 4.6 billion years old so in the middle of his lifespan of 10 billion years. After that Sun will expand into a red giant incinerating everything that would be on earth at that time and life on this planet will cease to exist.

The Sun is huge, so huge that it takes 99.8% mass of everything that exists in solar system and has 1378657km(856658miles) in diameter( Earth has 13000km). 109 times bigger diameter than Earths and u could fit 1300000 Earths into the Sun

this is how small we are compared to the Sun

The surface of the sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 degrees Celsius), while temperatures in the core reach more than 27 million F (15 million C), driven by nuclear reactions. You would need 100 billion tons of dynamite to explode every second to match the energy produced by the sun

The Sun is located 1au(astronomical unit or 149600000km) from Earth and sunlight needs 8min and 20 sec to reach Earth but did u know that light is anywhare betwen 100000 and 50 millions years old when it reaches Earth. Light is created in Suns core and needs that much to reach surface of the Sun