Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar system. A perfect ball of plasma created thanks to the billion-years battle between immense gravity and unyielding nuclear fusion. With its enormous effect on Earth it was regarded as deity since prehistoric times. An entirety of life, all aspects of it are formed thanks to it and are dependent on it. Existing for roughly 4.6 billions of years, the Sun is a yellow dwarf, a type-G main sequence star. Eating hundreds millions tons of hydrogen every second, it baths the planets of the system in infrared heat and visible light. A photon born of nuclear fusion at temperatures of millions of degrees C will take 170'000 years to escape from core to t...View all