- Sun - Wikipedia
The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies
- The Colorado Sun: News, climate, politics, water, housing and more
Get news alerts, a great reading experience and more in The Colorado Sun app! Download for free! A Colorado Sun series We’re taking a look at how shifting demographics are affecting housing, the workforce and quality of life, and whether Colorado has the services needed for people to age in place With age comes … stuff
- Sun: Facts - NASA Science
Our Sun is a 4 5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s our solar system’s only star Without the Sun’s energy, life as we know it could not exist on our home planet
- The sun: Facts about the bright star at the center of the solar system
Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth
- In Depth | Sun – NASA Solar System Exploration
Our Sun is a medium-sized star with a radius of about 435,000 miles (700,000 kilometers) Many stars are much larger – but the Sun is far more massive than our home planet: it would take more than 330,000 Earths to match the mass of the Sun, and it would take 1 3 million Earths to fill the Sun's volume
- Sun moon times today, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
6 minutes, 56 seconds shorter than summer solstice (20 Jun 2025) The Sun's altitude in Colorado Springs today The horizontal line signifies the horizon, the vertical lines show the times of sunrise and sunset Altitude and heading are displayed below the graph The graph defaults to current time Hover over it to select a different time
- Meet the Sun - Center for Science Education
Like other stars, the Sun is a dense ball of gas that creates energy through nuclear fusion reactions in the core, creating helium atoms from hydrogen atoms The Sun radiates different forms of energy, including ultraviolet, infrared, and light energy, out into space Light and heat energy from the Sun warm our planet and make life possible
- Sun Fact Sheet - NSSDCA
Model values at center of Sun: Central pressure: 2 477 x 10 11 bar (2 477 x 10 17 g cm s 2) Central temperature: 1 571 x 10 7 K Central density: 1 622 x 10 5 kg m 3 (1 622 x 10 2 g cm 3)
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