Sun

THE SUN

The sun is at the center of the solar system. The sun orbits the center of the milky way at an approximately distance of 24 000 to 26 000 light years from the galactic center. The earth rotates around on a 23 degree axis, 1 rotation (which means to spin in a circle) around is called a day or 24 hours. Also the earth orbits the sun, 1 lap (orbit) around the sun is called a year. The sun does rotate but it doesn’t spin like a solid ball most likely because it isn’t one. The sun takes about 26 days to make 1 rotation at its equator. The sun is made up of gas and plasma there are small amounts of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, magnesium and iron but most of the gas is made up by hydrogen and helium. The sun was formed about 4 and a half billion years ago.

The sun is 1 out of a billion stars and it’s the closest to the earth. The surface of the sun is called a photosphere. On the photosphere the temperature is 10,000 Fahrenheit. The diameter of the sun is 870,000 miles wide it is 109 times larger than the earth. In the ancient times the people believed that the sun was a burning ball of fire created by the gods.

The sun looks like a burning ball it is hot but not on fire. The sun is really yellow but in some pictures it looks red.

I would like to thank all the great places you can get this information from like the place is did which is:
 * [|Wikipedia.com]
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 * Library.thinkquest.org
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 * [|__www.madsci.org__] by Bridgette Hamilton