| Fun Facts about the Sun |
The sun is about 846,000 miles wide and is filled with hot gases that account for more than 99.8% of the total mass in the solar system. How hot? The temperature is about 10,000° F on the surface and more than 28 million degrees Fahrenheit at the core.
The sun is already about 4.5 billion years old and has used up nearly half of the hydrogen in its core. It will continue to burn through the hydrogen for another 5 billion years or so, and then helium will become its primary fuel. At that point, the sun will expand to about a hundred times its current size, swallowing Earth and other planets. It will burn as a red giant for another billion years and then collapse into a white dwarf about the size of planet Earth. (Source: www.science.nationalgeographic.com)
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Sept 16-18
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