Our Sun

•  The Sun is made up of gas and dust that began to fall into its own force of gravity and ignite under pressure causing a nuclear fusion at 1 million degrees.
• The surface of the sun is 10,000 degrees.
• As it grew, the baby sun became hotter and hotter.
• Scientists say the sun was born through a vast cloud of dust around 5 billion years ago.
• The Sun is so large that the earth could easily fit inside the sun a million times

Like A Flower?

• There are spots in the sun that are slightly cooler then other spots. These are known as sun spots.
• The spots are slightly darker then other spots because they are cooler.
• People have to use special telescopes with filters and other things to be able to see the cooler spots on the surface of the Sun.
• Spots come and go, sometimes there are a lot and sometimes there are not.
• This happens over 11 years and it is called the Saros Cycle.

This Is called a Solar Eclipse 

• When the moon orbits in front of the sun, the sun and moon appear to be the same size and the sun appears to be blocked by the moon.

Solar Flares

• In times of high solar activity, the sun releases massive amounts of gas and plasma into its atmosphere. 
• These flares can be really small or HUGE and have explosions like bombs. 
• These flares can be so powerful that they can cause our satellites that go around our earth to not work right. 
• They also create beautiful light shows known as Aurora Borealis.

Interesting facts.....

•  The sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth.
• The sun is 389 times further away from the Earth than the moon.
• The sun is so hot that even an Astronaut can't even walk on it! 
• You can NOT look into the sun because it will hurt your eyes.

A satellite that orbits our earth.