Following are some fascinating facts about the sun, the center of the Solar System and the main source of energy for the Earth.
1. Light from the sun takes approximately 8 minutes to reach the Earth.
Travel speed of the light is 186,282 miles per second.
2. The sun only lines up like this twice per year.
The luckiest ones are there to take shots.
3. Watching the sunset and or rise at least 2-3 times per week can fight off depression and help you live longer.
Just take a break to enjoy the view!
4. If you’re pulling an all nighter, have a 15-20 minute nap just before the sun comes up and your body will reset itself.
You are a part of nature and the Sun is a great guide of your body.
5. A great sunset could be seen over Lake Michigan August 7th. the silhouette of Chicago inside the sun.
However many people believe this shot to be fake.
6. One third of the human population sneezes when they look at the sun.
It is called a photic sneeze reflex, a genetic quirk that remains unexplained by the science despite the fact the greatest people of the world were intrigued by this phenomenon.
7. Those who spend more time in the sun are happier, more optimistic and less likely to suffer from depression.
Are you keep living in the lack of sunlight? It’s time to think about moving anywhere else.
8. If the Sun was scaled down to the size of a white blood cell, the Milky way would be the size of the continental United States.
But can we really comprehend something like this with our minds?
9. If God created the sun on the fourth day…. how had four days passed?
Probably those were the only days of the world existence passed in the pitch darkness…
10. The sun is actually a greenish-blue color, but earth’s atmosphere scatters certain color wavelengths, making it look yellow.
In fact colors are created in different ways when they come to the atmosphere of our planet.
11. The last time the Sun was in its current position in space around the Milky Way, dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Haven’t you meet any of them lately?
12. If you were able to fold a piece of paper 50 times, its thickness would exceed the distance from here to the sun.
Fold it more than 8 times? Impossible! That’s what you’d probably say. Ok, it does not seem to be true. Up to date the record is twelve but the 12-fold piece of paper was not even higher than an ordinary table. How could 30 folds be equal to a distance to an object in space? In fact, we are reflecting this way just because our brains typically think logarithmically not linearly .
13. If Earth was a cherry tomato in your hand, the Sun would be .3 miles away and 13 feet wide.
Have you ever dreamed of being huge as the Universe to play planets as toys?
14. Chicago weighs 300 lbs more when the sun is out, due to the force of the sunlight impacting the ground.
Did you think light was weightless?
15. The Sun is shrinking by 5 feet an hour.
Has it been like this forever? Are we safe? Probably we are, cause the sun is massive as hell.
16. The sunlight allergy the children have in the film “The Others” is based on a real disease, xeroderma pigmentosum.
Some people are unlucky to have extreme sensitivity to UV rays. Most of them die very young from skin cancer.
17. It takes at least 4,000 years for light to leave the interior of the sun.
It’s all due to the high density of the solar plasma.
18. In certain places in Alaska, the sun does not set the entire month of June.
Such places are perfect for making cool vampire movies!
19. Every 13 years, the suns magnetic field flips e.g. North becomes South and South Becomes North.
Fortunately, it does not have a harmful impact on people.
20. The Sun is an almost perfect sphere.
Its imperfection is only ten kilometres in its polar diameter compared to its equatorial diameter. Considering the great mass of the Sun, we may conclude it’s the most perfect sphere ever observed in nature.
Happy Reading! :)
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