The Sun is categorized in
many different legends. The Ancient Greeks called it Helios.
The Sun's name came from Romans who called it
Sol. The Sun is a star, NOT a
planet. It is the only star that can be seen in daytime. If
you could hold the Earth and the Sun, you could fit more
than one million Earths inside of it. The Sun's center is
fifteen million degrees Celsius. That is so hot that if you
got so far as a kilometer from it, the heat would fry
you!! The Sun's surface is
called the photosphere. At the photosphere, there is three
hundred eighty six billion megawatts of energy. That could
light MILLIONS and MILLIONS of light bulbs, all at one
time!! If we didn't have the
Sun, life on Earth wouldn't be possible. Do you know why?
It's because the Sun provides light and heat on Earth. As
you know, "heat" is a very important part of our
environment. We use heat to grow plants, keep warm, and to
give us a tan. If we didn't have it we would probably starve
and freeze to death. The Sun appears to be a
yellowish, golden disk in daytime. The Sun looks like an
ordinary star at night. The Sun is a mediocre star. Also
classified as a yellow dwarf star, the Sun, as far as we
know, is a single star system. I don't know about you,
but I think that the Sun is COOL! The Sun is full of
interesting facts and I hope that you enjoyed this part of
"Take a Bite Out Of the Milky Way."
