By Sakshi Sah
Published Mar 08, 2025

Hindustan Times
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Spectacular images of the Sun captured by NASA

The Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star. It is a hot, glowing ball of hydrogen and helium.

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It’s about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and it’s our solar system’s only star.

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Without the Sun’s energy, life on Earth would not exist.

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The Sun has a radius of about 4,35,000 miles (7,00,000 km).

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As a star, the Sun doesn’t have any moons, but the planets and their moons orbit the Sun.

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The Sun orbits the centre of the Milky Way.

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Like all stars, our Sun will eventually run out of energy.

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When it starts to die, the Sun will expand into a red giant star.

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