Xtreme 10 facts of the Sun
This is a post on sun which is a hot body.This post has got some interesting facts about sun which most of them don’t know
1) Sun is an incredibly hot sphere of gas that generates energy and is the only hot body in the Galaxy to be in plasma state.
2) Suns gravity keeps the Earth and eight other planets, more than 60 moons, millions of comets and asteroids orbiting around it
3) About 70% of its mass is hydrogen and 28% is Helium.
4) Age - 5 billion years.
5) Diameter - 139200 km (865000 miles)
6) Distance from Earth - 149.6 million km.
7) Time taken to orbit galaxy - 240 million years.
Surface temperature - 5,500 degrees centigrade (9,900 F)
9) Life expectancy - 10 billion years.
10) Mass - 332,946 kg. of Earth
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