T he sun can easily be referred to as the most important object in our sky. People here on earth can hardly comprehend the massive size of our sun, people may rarely talk about the significance it holds for life on earth, but this life enabler has a tendency of throwing tantrums every now and then, tantrums that can spell disaster for earthlings. Before diving into the severity of these tantrums let us know some facts about the sun in order to understand the gravity of the situation (pun intended). Starting with a simple question to know more about sun What is the size of the sun? 1.39 million Km is the answer in simple words, but what does it mean? This means if we could fit earth inside the sun, we would require more than a million piles of the earth to fill it up. Comfortably sitting at the center of our solar system, the sun alone accounts for 99.86% of the mass of our solar system. That is like whatever our solar system has including all planets, comets, asteroids, moons and all t...
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