☀ Sun The Sun is the star we orbit. # ############### ##################### ######################### ########################### ############################# ############################### ############################### ################################# ############################### ############################### ############################# ########################### ######################### ##################### ############### # Type Sun Magnitude -26.7 Known as Symbol ☉ Physical Radius 695,700 km, 109 Earths across Mass 332,944 Earths Density 1.41 g/cm3 Surface gravity 274.0 m/s2, 27.93x Earth's Escape velocity 617.7 km/s Temperature 5772 K, 5499 C More information about Sun The Sun is a middling yellow star of a kind there are billions of, and the only one close enough to us to show a visible disc rather than a point of light. Its light takes eight minutes and twenty seconds to cross the distance, so the Sun you watch setting actually set eight minutes before you saw it. Never look at it through binoculars or a telescope without a proper solar filter fitted at the front. The damage is instant and permanent. Its name comes from the same root as Latin sol and Greek helios, and is one of the oldest words that can be reconstructed. Germanic made it feminine, which is why German still has die Sonne against a masculine Mond. History First visited Pioneer 5, 1960 Missions SOHO 1996- Ulysses 1990-2009 Parker Solar Probe 2018- Solar Orbiter 2020- Etymology From Old English Reading sunne Literally the sun where it is tonight: skymap.sh/Sun