Sun
Our own star, the source of all daylight. Never look at it directly, and never through binoculars or a telescope.
Tonight from
Rise, highest point and set are worked out on your device for the place above.
What it is
- Diameter
- 1,391,400 km, about 109 times the Earth’s
- Mass
- 332,900 times the Earth’s
- Temperature of its surface
- 5,772 kelvin, about 5,500 °C
- Distance from the Earth
- 149.6 million km on average
- Its light reaches us in
- 8 minutes 19 seconds
Figures from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NSSDCA fact sheets. All sources