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Wednesday, 23 February 2011

THE SUN AND OTHER STARS

The Sun Basic details:
Diameter: 1,392.000 km (865,000 miles)
Rotation Period: 25.4 days
Surface Temperature: 5500 deg C.
Core Temperature: c 15 million deg C.

The sun is the nearest star to us. It is classed as a yellow dwarf star.
Mean Dist from centre of Galaxy: 25,000 lt yrs
Revolution Period round centre of Galaxy: 225 million yrs

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