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More than one million Earths could fit inside the Sun if it were hollow. The Sun has a radius of 696.340 km / 432.685 mi and a diameter of 1.39 million km / 864.000 mi. Earth, for comparison, has a radius of only 2.439 km / 1.516 mi, and a diameter of just 12.742 km / 7.917 mi.
Sep 29, 2020 · The Earth has a radius of 2.439 kilometers / 1.516 miles and a diameter of only 12.742 km / 7.917 mi. When it comes to weight, the mass of Earth is equivalent to 5.9 quadrillion kg. In the Solar System, our Earth is the fifth largest planet and the largest of the terrestrial planets.
Sep 29, 2020 · The largest moon in the Solar System, namely Ganymede, has a diameter of around 1.51 times that of our Moons. The Moon is located at about 384,400 kilometers / 238,855 miles away from Earth, or 1.29 light-seconds. The Moon is 384,400,000 meters away from us, while in inches, the Moon is 15.13 billion inches away from Earth.
Sep 29, 2020 · Well, Jupiter has a diameter of around 142.984 km / 88.846 mi at the equator, and a diameter of about 133.708 km / 83.082 mi at the poles. It has a mean radius of 69.911 km / 43.440 mi, and its mass is equivalent to 318 Earth masses. Jupiter has more than 11 times the diameter of Earth. Some scientists estimated that if Jupiter were more than ...
Jan 30, 2020 · VY Canis Majoris is a pulsating variable star situated at around 3.900 light-years / 1.2 kiloparsecs away from the Sun. It has an apparent magnitude that varies from 6.5 to - 9.6, and its absolute magnitude is – 9.4. VY Canis Majoris is surrounded by a complex asymmetric circumstellar envelope caused by mass loss from the star itself.
Sep 26, 2019 · The Sun Profile. diameter: 1,390,000 km. mass: 1.989e30 kg. temperature: 5800 K (surface) 15,600,000 K (core) History of The Sun. The Sun is by far the largest object in the solar system. It contains more than 99.8% of the total mass of the Solar System (Jupiter contains most of the rest). It is often said that the Sun is an "ordinary" star.
Sep 7, 2023 · It takes Venus 225 Earth days to go around the Sun in a single elliptical orbit which speaks to its respective closeness to our star compared to Earth. It ranges from 66.8 million miles to 67.7 million miles away from the Sun at any one time during these 225 days.
It is around 8% bigger than our Sun. Polaris B, on the other hand, has 1.39 solar masses and 1.38 solar radii. It is thus around 60% bigger than our Sun. Polaris B is the most distant in this star system, orbiting the others at a distance of 2,400 AU. One AU is the equivalent of the distance between Earth and the Sun. Trivia
Sep 11, 2023 · Light takes over 4 hours to reach Neptune from the Sun in comparison to the 8 minutes it takes for light to reach Earth. An astronomical unit (AU) is equal to the distance from the Sun to the Earth and Neptune is 30 AU from our solar system’s star. This equates on average to 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers).
Aug 22, 2023 · Roughly speaking the sun’s circumference is 2.720984 million miles which seems astronomically big. In truth though compared to some stars it is pretty small. The red giant known as Betelgeuse for example is about 700 times larger than the sun and roughly 14,000 brighter.
