The Sun appears to be yellow-gold because we view it through Earth’s atmosphere. The sun actual color is more white than yellow. It also contains 99.9 percent of all matter in our solar system. But don’t ask me why, I don’t know how they figure all these items out, but they do. Your tax dollars at work in Houston.
They say if place a piece of the Sun’s core the size of a pin on Earth, it would still generate enough heat to kill a person 84 miles away. The surface gravity of the Sun is 28 times that of earth, and if you were to weigh 120 lbs. on Earth, you would weigh 3,360 lbs. on the surface of the sun.
The International Space Station Transits the Sun Credit & Copyright: Martin Wagner
But not to worry ….. You are going to vaporize long before you get anywhere near the surface of the planet. That tiny mark is the International Space Station, it is not a sun spot. For the data on this photo and other incredible views, go to NASA shot of the day. Click on a photo and discover the Cosmos.
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