Ten Amazing facts about the Sun and Light
- The sun is 1 million times bigger than the earth.
- The sun is about 93 million miles away from earth.
- Sunlight can take up to 1 million years to travel from the core to the surface.
- Light takes 8 minutes to travel from the surface of the sun to reach earth.
- Sun light travels at 186 thousand miles in 1 second.
- Traveling at that speed it would take 4 years to reach the nearest star.
- The speed of light is the fastest known moving object in the universe.
- Einstein predicted that matter breaks apart when reaching the speed of light.
- The sun produces 10 million frequencies or vibrational sound waves.
- A new science helioseismology has been created to study the frequencies of the sun.
