Intersting Facts About SUN

~ Our sun has an expected lifetime of about 11 billion years.

~ Our sun and the surrounding planets orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy once
every 250 million years.

~ Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

~ On its trip around the sun, the earth travels over a million and a half miles per day.

~ No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes 58 seconds because of the speed at which the
sun moves.

~ Lightning bolts can sometimes be hotter than the sun. (about 50 000º F)

~ 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.

~ In Spit Bergen, Norway at one time of the year the sun shines continuously for three and a
half months.

~ In Newport, Rhode Island it is illegal to smoke from a pipe after sunset.

~ In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.

~ If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to be
aware of the fact.

~ For 186 days you can not see the sun in the North Pole.

~ Every eleven years the magnetic poles of the sun switch. This cycle is called"Solarmax".

~ Because of the speed at which the sun moves, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more
than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.

~ 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.


~ 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.

~ 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.

~ All the coal, oil, gas, and wood on Earth would only keep the Sun burning for a few days.

~ An area of the Sun's surface the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000
candles.

~ Your fingernails can turn yellow from wearing nail polish and from the sun.

~ 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.

~ The Sun provides our planet with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy every day.

~ 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.

~ More than 1 million earths would fit inside the sun.

~ 99% of our solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.

~ The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!