Friday, February 22, 2013

Sun Sites

Do a quick search through the following websites for 8 minutes.

Characteristics of the Sun
3D Solar System Tour
Sun-Earth Viewer
Amazing Photos of the Sun

What is the most interesting fact that you found about the sun and its size? Leave it in a comment on this post.

37 comments:

Dylan O said...

The sun is considered a small star

Anonymous said...

The sun is the largest thing in the solar solar system, it takes up 99.86%.

Anonymous said...

The Sun is the largest thing in our solar system even thought it's considered a small star.

Grace H. said...

I found it interesting that the sun takes up 99.86% mass of out solar system. The sun will eventually run out of usable hydrogen fuel in the core and become a red giant.

nathan hruska said...

The Mass Is 1.98892 x 1030 kg a number i cannot even pronounce!

Anonymous said...

its cool that the sun is so hot that it can still send heat to saturn and uranus. its the only star in our solar system plus it has enough gravitational pull to hold 8 planets


-Laramie Albers

Anonymous said...

The sun has so much activity that we cannot normally see.

Mollie Hodgson said...

I think it's cool how big it is and that it gives our planet heat.

isaac said...

As you go in the universe the sun is a smaller star.

Spencer Swedlund said...

The Diameter of the Sun is 1,391,000 Kilometers!

Andy W said...

The diameter of the sun is 1,391,000 kilometers

Mason Miller said...

It was used to mark ritual dates in the cultures of many native peoples.

Emily Ruzhitsky said...

formed from the solar nebula about 4.59 billion years ago

Justin P said...

its radius is 695,000 km

michael leffring said...

the sun is so hudge. it can support light for all.

Jenny S. said...

when the sun becomes a dwarf star it will only be about the size of the earth

Tahia M. said...

The sun size is changing all the time. In the future when it runs out of usable hydrogen fuel in the core it will become a red giant as well.

Anonymous said...

The Sun is actually considered a smallish star. Saying this they have seen and think that there may be stars up to 2,000 times larger than the sun. The largest thought of star is VY Canis Majoris.

Christian H said...

Bigger than any other object in the solar system

Kalei W said...

The sun is a star in the center of our solar system.

jake kohls said...

the suns mass is 99.8% of the whole solar system

Alex R. said...

it is the largest thing in the solar system

Brittni F. said...

The size of the sun is changing. In a few million years it could be 200 times larger than it is right now.

Kayla L said...

The sun is one of the 6000 stars in our galaxy that people can see with their naked eye. That is sooo cool!

christopher poppenga said...

the diamitor of the sun is 1,391,000 kilometers

Ashton Sperle :-) said...

The sun is only a medium sized star.

Maddie R. said...

The sun is 1,391,000 kilometers in diameter. But it is still one of the smaller stars.

Anonymous said...

The sun is accountable for 99.8% of the mass in the entire solar system!

Maia G. said...

Even though the sun is the largest object in the solar system it is considered a medium sized star or even small.

Luke Kennelly said...

I think the most interesting fact is the ring of fire or the solar flares on the sun

Kaitlyn J said...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System, accounting for 99.86% of the mass.

Hanah W. said...

a solar prominence can loop thousands of miles in space

SydneyR said...

Just the flare is 20 times bigger than earth.

sam greer said...

The sun is the largest thing is the solar system.

Morgan Johnson (MOJO) said...

I think it is interesting that the sun is the largest object in the solar system, it makes up 99.87%!!!!!(:

Anonymous said...

the sun it the largest star in our system.

Robin H said...

I found it very intresting that the sun is HUGE!!!!! and it is concidered a star! It takes up over 99% of the solar system

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