10 Interesting Facts About The Sun

NASA confirms: The Sun is a medium-sized yellow dwarf star — just one of over 100 billion stars in our galaxy

The Sun is made of 74%  hydrogen and 24% helium. The rest is trace elements like oxygen and carbon

NASA states the Sun’s photosphere (visible surface) reaches about 5,500°C, while its core blazes at over 15 million°C

Light travels 93 million miles in just 8 minutes and 20 seconds to get from the Sun to you

NASA monitors solar flares that can disturb satellites, GPS, and even power grids on Earth

NASA discovered “sunquakes” — shockwaves that ripple across the Sun’s surface after solar flares, like seismic quakes on Earth

Its immense gravity keeps Earth, planets, asteroids, and comets in orbit. It’s the anchor of our cosmic family

NASA tracks an 11-year cycle of sunspots and activity, shifting between solar maximum and solar minimum phases

The Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018, is the closest spacecraft to ever approach the Sun — flying into the corona

According to NASA, the Sun is about 4.6 billion years old and has enough fuel to last another 5 billion years