About 1.3 Million Earths Could Fit Inside the Sun

The Sun is so much larger than Earth that the comparison is hard to picture. NASA puts it in terms of volume: it would take 1.3 million Earths to fill the space the Sun occupies. The figure describes volume, meaning how much room the Sun takes up, and not its weight or its width. NASA’s fact page gives other numbers on the same scale. The temperature in the Sun’s core is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit, or 15 million degrees Celsius. The solar system was forming about 4.6 billion years ago, and the Sun is about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers, from Earth.