Fact #1
Our Sun is 4,500,000,000 years old. That's a lot of zeroes. That’s four and a half billion.
Fact #2
The color of the sun is white. The sun emits all colors of the rainbow in approximately equal amounts and we call this combination "white".
Fact #3
The temperature at the surface of the Sun is about 10,000 Fahrenheit (5,600 Celsius).
Fact #4
The Sun shines by turning hydrogen into helium in its core. This process is called nuclear fusion.
Fact #5
The Sun is at an average distance of about 93,000,000 miles (150 million kilometers) away from Earth
Fact #6
The Sun has been shining for about 4.6 billion years and it will continue to shine for about 5 billion more years.
Fact #7
The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864,938 miles (1.392 million km).
Fact #8
The name crepuscular means "relating to twilight" and these rays are observed at sunrise and sunset.