From our perspective on Earth, the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The "great ball of fire", or gas, to be more precise, is also our closest star and the most important source of energy for life on Earth. Without her, we would not be here. We go over the facts you may not know about the star in our solar system.
We compare the Sun with the Earth:
Its radius is 109 times that of the Earth
Its mass is 333,000 times that of Earth
Its volume is 1.3 million times that of the Earth
Its surface gravity is 28 times that of Earth
Its average temperature is 171 times that of Earth
Its surface area is 11,917 times that of Earth
Its surface pressure is 1/1000 times that of the Earth
Its density is 25% that of the Earth
Its orbital speed is 55 times that of Earth
