5 fast facts about the sun. Over 1 million Earths could fit inside the sun. The sun may look yellow from Earth, but it actually releases every color of light, meaning its true color is white.

Unless you have been hiding under a rock, you know by now that the sun and the moon will be the stars of the Great American Eclipse of 2017. It happens Aug. 21, when the moon will pass between the ...

Facts about our sun and moon that you’re embarrassed to admit you don’t know August 9, 2017 More than 7 years ago Capital Weather Gang's Angela Fritz explains how math is used to determine the ...

What Makes Up the Sun? The atomic weight of the sun is composed of 92.1 percent hydrogen and 7.8 percent helium, with traces of carbon and nitrogen. (By mass, it's more like 70.6 percent hydrogen ...

The sun is so incomprehensibly big that it's almost pointless to bother trying to imagine its size. Our star is about 860,000 miles across. It's so big that 1.3 million Earths could fit inside it.

Here are a few facts that you might not know about the Sun’s dynamics around the galaxy. —- The Sun orbits the galactic center in a nearly circular orbit around the galactic center.

Quick facts about the sun. How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across. How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star.