How big is the sun?

Question

Its pretty big i know, but somewhere i heard it was a million times bigger than earth. Is that true? I think its about 850,000 miles across.

Answer 1

It certainly is big in comparison with Earth (1.3 million times the volume as many people have said).

But if you compare the sun with the star Betelgeuse, then the Sun seems pretty small. Betelgeuse has a volume 300 million times more than the Sun. (If you tried to fit it in our solar system, it would just about fit inside the orbit of Jupiter).

And compared to the size of a galaxy, any individual star is minute ... and then there are clusters of galaxies.

So, yes the Sun is big on an Earth scale but it is just a fleck on a cosmic scale.

Answer 2

Mean diameter 1.392×106 km (109 Earth diameters)
Circumference 4.373×106 km (342 Earth diameters)
Surface area 6.09×1012 km² (11,900 Earths)
Volume 1.41×1018 km³ (1,300,000 Earths)
Mass 1.988 435×1030 kg (332,946 Earths)

Answer 3

This will help i'm sure!

Surface area 6.09×1012 km² - (11,900 Earths)

Volume 1.41×1018 km³ - (1,300,000 Earths)

Mass 1.988 435×1030 kg -(332,946 Earths)

Answer 4

4.373×10^6 km
(342 Earth diameters)

Answer 5

Bigger even than Manchester > and a dot warmer too.

Answer 6

Bigger than your head and smaller than the milky way

Answer 7

yep 840 000 miles although you would expect it to shrink a little due to nuclear reaction.

chhers Andy

Answer 8

its big. incomprehensibly big. people often use relative examples versus absolute meaurement. 330,000 earths would fit inside the sun.

Answer 9

i know the moon is big cause when my 16 year old bends over i see it every time lololol

Answer 10

http://www.answers.com/sun?gwp=11&ver=2.1.0.502&method=3