Sun space earth. Its the only planet known to have an atmosphere containing free oxygen oceans of water on its surface and of course life. The suns surface area is 11990 times that of the earths. At 79175 miles 12742 km earths diameter is just a few hundred kilometers larger than that of venus. Facts about the suns age size and history.
Earth our home is the third planet from the sun. The sun is a main sequence g2v star or yellow dwarf. The sun is composed of hydrogen 70 and helium 28. Earth is 92955820 miles 149597891 kilometers away from the sun.
Heliophysics is the science of understanding the sun and its interactions with earth and the solar system including space weather. The earth is the only planet in our solar system not to be named after a greek or roman deity. The distance between the earth and the sun is an astronomical unit au. Learn all about the earth sun and moon fly your space rocket get past the asteroids and begin learning.
The storybots are curious little creatures who live beneath our screens offering a world of learning and fun for kids. Earth is the third planet from the sun and is the largest of the terrestrial planets. The earth was formed approximately 454 billion years ago and is the only known planet to support life. Then take a short test and print out your certificate.
It orbits some 25000 light years from the galactic core completing a revolution once every 250 million years or so. At about 864000 miles 14 million kilometers wide the sun is 109 times wider than earth and it accounts for more than 998 percent of the solar systems total mass. According to a new study by astronomers based on data from the kepler space telescope 1 in 4 sunlike stars should have a planet thats approximately earth sized orbiting in the stars habitable.