About 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the Sun

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About 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the Sun
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About 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the Sun

The Sun is roughly 109 times wider than Earth. Since volume grows with the cube of the diameter, it would take around 1.3 million Earths to fill it. And yet, by stellar standards, the Sun is no giant: it's a thoroughly average-sized star.

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The water in your glass is older than the Sun

A large share of Earth's water molecules formed in the interstellar cloud that existed before the Sun was even born, more than 4.6 billion years ago. You are literally drinking a cosmic fossil.

Cleeves et al., Science (2014)
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On Mars, sunsets are blue

By day, the Martian sky looks butterscotch because of fine dust hanging in the air. But at dusk, those same grains scatter blue light forward, creating a bluish glow around the Sun. Rovers have photographed these blue sunsets: the exact reverse of what we see on Earth.

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