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title: "7 Burning Facts About the Sun"  
description: "Take a look at the most interesting facts about the sun. Here's everything you might not know about the star of the Solar System:"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-12-16  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1851/7-burning-facts-about-the-sun  
category: "space science"  
tags: ["Sun", "burning facts", "sun facts", "burning sun facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# 7 Burning Facts About the Sun

![7 Burning Facts About the Sun](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/7333cc9b-2963-4da3-a85b-eceb4c60c19d/images/9c864fd1-357c-4147-aa30-fa774a2343b8.jpeg) ![7 Burning Facts About the Sun](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/7333cc9b-2963-4da3-a85b-eceb4c60c19d/images/8f361fe8-70c9-4108-968a-2394496f9d99.jpeg) Most scientists believe that the Sun is about the same age as Earth and all the other seven planets of the Solar System ![7 Burning Facts About the Sun](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/7333cc9b-2963-4da3-a85b-eceb4c60c19d/images/e0b5f296-dfef-4322-b826-0457ca42658d.jpeg) The sun born due to the collapse of part of a giant molecular cloud that consisted mostly of hydrogen and helium ![7 Burning Facts About the Sun](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/7333cc9b-2963-4da3-a85b-eceb4c60c19d/images/a346b61c-9a9f-419d-b793-bf6d3ee45b3e.jpeg) The official scientific classification of sun is G2V ![7 Burning Facts About the Sun](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/7333cc9b-2963-4da3-a85b-eceb4c60c19d/images/37fa0d3c-9323-4da2-8714-18546957b378.jpeg) It consists of 74.9 percent hydrogen, 23.8 percent helium, and 2 percent heavier elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, and neon ![7 Burning Facts About the Sun](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/7333cc9b-2963-4da3-a85b-eceb4c60c19d/images/e9d52ac1-2f8d-4bb8-92bb-67069554cf4c.jpeg) The primary fuel of sun is Hydrogen. ![7 Burning Facts About the Sun](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/7333cc9b-2963-4da3-a85b-eceb4c60c19d/images/8679d7b9-183b-422f-9792-ea43440f5629.jpeg) At the Sun's core, temperatures reach at least 27,000,000 °F (15,000,000 °C) ![7 Burning Facts About the Sun](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/7333cc9b-2963-4da3-a85b-eceb4c60c19d/images/5c112cbb-c6ef-4772-a579-e79522c1860e.jpeg) The surface of the Sun has an average temperature of 9,941 °F (5,505 °C or 5,778 K)

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