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What is Galaxy

What is Galaxy? The Short Answer: The Galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billion of stars and solar systems, all held together by gravity. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, also has a supermassive black hole in the middle. (A supermassive black hole is the biggest kind of black hole. Its gravity is more than a million times stronger than our sun's, Its has very strong gravity that pulls in everything around it. ) We live on a planet called Earth that is part of our solar system. But where is our solar system? It's a small part of the Milky Way Galaxy. live view of Galaxy by NASA. Hubble Skymap Planets in our Galaxy ? Mercury : The swiftest planet. Venus : Earth's superheated twin sister. Earth : Our home world. Mars : The Red Planet. Jupiter : Kind of the planets. Saturn : Jewel of the solar system. Uranus : The original ice giant. Neptune : The farthest planet in our solar system. Pluto : A small world wit

What is sun ?

The Sun is a star located at the center of our solar system. It is nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, primarily composed of hydrogen and helium. The Sun's gravity hold the solar system together, and its intense hear and light provide the energy that sustains life on Earth.

JUST HOW CLOSE IS THE SUN TO EARTH ?

It's approximately 93 million miles away from Earth. That's 400 times farther than the distance between Earth and Moon!

However, it's good thing that Earth isn't close to sun. If we were too close, it would be way too hot to live here. The sun's surface is very hot , and its would be way too hot to love here. And the Sun's core is the hottest part of all, at a sizzling 27 million degrees Fahrenheit!

Our Sun is about 100 times wider than Earth, but it is just an average sized star. Astronomers have found some stars that are 100 times bigger than the Sun and others that are 10 times smaller.

The sun according the NASA :: The Sun

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