The Sun

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The sun is an ordinary star, one of about 100 billion in our galaxy, the Milky Way. The sun has extremely important influences on our planet: It drives weather, ocean currents, seasons, and climate, and makes plant life possible through photosynthesis. Without the sun’s heat and light, life on Earth would not exist.

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1hnZbqz2-hb11_hLmkegdSPPj19e7RmTq

The Sun moves around the Galactic Center of the Milky Way, at a distance of 26,660 light years. From Earth, it is about 8 light minutes away. It’s diameter is about 109 times that of Earth. It’s mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth, making up about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. Roughly three-quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen(~73%); the rest is mostly helium(~25%), with much smaller quantities of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, and iron.
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1cluVFW2VrnRgdZFToEnq5s05VjyZA6iu

The sun was born about 4.6 billion years ago. Many scientists think the sun and the rest of the solar system formed from a giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. As the nebula collapsed because of its gravity, it spun faster and truned into a disk. Most of the material was pulled toward the center to form the sun.

Credits:https://science.nasa.gov/sun/facts/
https://www.britannica.com/place/Sun
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/factfile-the-sun.html

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