and are there stars bigger than the sun
2007-10-31 15:50:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Earth is about 13 thousand kilometers (8000 miles) wide, whereas the Sun is roughly 1.4 million kilometers (900,000 miles) across. This means it would take more than 100 Earths to span the width of the Sun! If the Sun were a hollow ball, you could fit about one million Earths inside of it
2007-10-31 16:01:54 · answer #1 · answered by jw6402 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That depends on how you reckon size.
The Sun is 109 times as wide as the Earth. Also, the Sun has 12,000 times the surface area of the Earth, 1.3 million times the volume, and 333,000 times the mass.
Our Sun is not too shabby as stars go, but there are many out there much bigger. Some supergiants have 50 times the mass of the Sun or more, and if one were put in the Sun's place it would engulf the orbits of all the planets as far out as the asteroid belt.
2007-10-31 23:20:39 · answer #2 · answered by stork5100 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would take 1,304,000 Earths to make one sun.
The Sun is a grade 3 star, kind of a puny little star compared to some of the monsters in our Universe. And we have no idea how big stars can get. Even our Universe is just one in an infinite number. There is no end, of anything, anywhere.
Someday the Earth will spiral into the Sun and burn, as all the planets will. But that's a ways in the future, so don't panic.
2007-10-31 23:13:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Scott the sun is about 1 million times larger than earth..
Also its about 93 million miles distant.
It takes the light slightly over 8 mins to reach us.
What you are looking at now happened 8 minutes ago.
There are stars which our sun is one, that are many many times bigger still..
Big place out there.
2007-10-31 23:11:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Indeed there are stars that are bigger than the sun. The sun is 865,000 miles in diameter..Antares is 400,million km in diameter..Betelgeuse is nearly 560 million km and 400 times larger than the sun.
2007-11-01 07:41:04 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Sun were hollow, a million earths could fit inside...
and yet....
It is only a middle sized star.
2007-10-31 23:07:17 · answer #6 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are stars millions and millions times bigger than our sun...
2007-10-31 22:58:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the sun is half the size of the earth obviously because sun is the sun and earth is a planet
2007-10-31 23:01:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 6⤋
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfs1t-2rrOM
2007-10-31 23:12:25 · answer #9 · answered by JA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋