Sun

Description:
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth,

Surface temperature: 5,778 K

Mass: 1.989 × 10^30 kg

Age: 4.603 billion years

Radius: 695,508 km

Density: 1.41 g/cm³

Did you know: Each second the Sun loses 5 million tons of material.