How big is the sun?

Question

It looks to be about the size of a quarter.

Answer 1

Huge compared to us, but less then a speck of dust to many other stars...

Check this out...crazy...
http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

Edit: Oh, and this is supposedly the largest known star... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VV_Cephei

Answer 2

The sun is so huge that over 1,300,000 of our earths could fit inside it. Is the sun an unusually large star? No, astronomers call it a yellow dwarf. The apostle Paul wrote that “star differs from star in glory.” (1 Corinthians 15:41) He could not have known how true those inspired words are. There is a star so huge that if it were placed right where the sun is, our earth would be inside it. Another giant star so placed would reach all the way out to Saturn, although that planet is so far from the earth that it took a spacecraft four years to get there, traveling over 40 times faster than a bullet fired from a powerful handgun!

Even more awesome than the size of the stars is their number. In fact, the Bible suggests that the stars are virtually innumerable, as difficult to count as “the sand of the sea.” (Jeremiah 33:22) This statement implies that there are far more stars than the naked eye can see. After all, if a Bible writer, such as Jeremiah, had looked up at the night sky and had tried to count the visible stars, he would have counted only three thousand or so, for that is how many the unaided human eye can detect on a clear night. That number might be comparable to the number of grains in a mere handful of sand. In reality, though, the number of stars is overwhelming, like the sand of the sea.

The sun is a star about (865,000 mi) in diameter, more than a hundred times the diameter of the earth, and more than a million times the volume of the earth. Its average distance from the earth is over (93,000,000 mi). The surface temperature of the sun is said to be about 6,000° C. (11,000° F.). But because of its great distance from the earth only about one two-billionth (one two-thousand-millionth) of its radiant energy reaches the earth, an amount, however, fully sufficient to provide ideal climatic conditions that make vegetable and animal life on earth possible.

Answer 3

The moon is the size of a quarter, the sun is the size of a 50 cent piece.


Or maybe its a trick of perspective.

Answer 4

Well it changes. Some days a quarter. In the summer, more like a half dollar. Winter months it shrinks a lot.

Answer 5

Circumsference: 4.373×106 km

Mean diameter: 1.392×106 km (109 Earths)

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

Answer 6

umm its about 1 million kilometres across and about 1 million earths would fit inside the sun objects seem larger the closer we get to them. Were 93 million miles away from the sun.

Answer 7

I say about the size of a golf ball.

Answer 8

Your wrong, its actually the size of a half-dollar

Answer 9

Bigger than Earth. Just the size God made it to be.

Answer 10

If you're in Canada it's more like a loonie.