The Sun
G2V main-sequence star · our star
8.3 light-minutes away
A million Earths would fit inside. Its visible surface boils with convection cells, dark sunspots and looping prominences of glowing hydrogen.
- surface 5,500 °C, core 15 million °C · 1.39 million km across
- light from its core takes ~100,000 years to reach the surface
- drawn warm like a filtered photo · from space it looks white
Numbers that change with time are from 10 November 2026.
open the Sun in the atlas ›- kind
- place in the Solar System
- size
- 1,390,000 km across
- orbiting it
- Mercury · Venus · Mars · Uranus · Neptune · Pluto · Earth · Jupiter · Saturn · 'Oumuamua · Arrokoth · Halley's Comet · Ceres · Comet Hale-Bopp · Comet NEOWISE · Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS · 3I/ATLAS · Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko · Kreutz sungrazers · the Perseids · the Leonids · Vesta · Bennu · Starman and the Tesla Roadster
More places in the Solar System
- the Oort cloud shell of icy bodies
- the Solar System our planetary system
- Tranquility Base Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon
- Apollo 12 landing site in the Ocean of Storms, on the Moon
- Apollo 14 landing site at Fra Mauro, on the Moon
- Apollo 15 landing site at Hadley-Apennine, on the Moon
- Hadley Rille a lava channel on the Moon
- Apollo 16 landing site at Descartes, on the Moon