Our Sun

GPTKB entity

Statements (55)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:star
stellar classification
gptkbp:age about 4.6 billion years
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:The_Sun
gptkb:Sol
gptkbp:composition gptkb:Oxygen
gptkb:Carbon
gptkb:Hydrogen
gptkb:Neon
gptkb:Helium
Iron
gptkbp:coreTemperature about 15 million K
gptkbp:corona Yes
gptkbp:coronalMassEjections Yes
gptkbp:diameter 695,700 km
gptkbp:discoveredBy Prehistoric observation
gptkbp:distanceFromEarth gptkb:Solar_System
gptkb:1_AU
about 27,000 light-years
149.6 million km
gptkbp:expansion Red giant
White dwarf
gptkbp:firstPhotographed 1845
gptkbp:galaxy gptkb:Milky_Way
gptkbp:hasViewOf gptkb:Earth
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Our Sun
gptkbp:influenced Earth's climate
Space weather
gptkbp:lifeStage Main sequence
gptkbp:luminosity 3.828 × 10^26 W
gptkbp:magneticFieldStrength Yes
gptkbp:mass 1.989 × 10^30 kg
gptkbp:nearestCity gptkb:Proxima_Centauri
gptkbp:nuclearFusionProcess gptkb:Proton-proton_chain
gptkbp:orbitalPeriodAroundGalacticCenter about 225-250 million years
gptkbp:orbitType gptkb:Galactic_Center
gptkbp:powerSource Nuclear fusion
gptkbp:rating 8
gptkbp:rotationPeriodAtEquator about 25 days
gptkbp:rotationPeriodAtPoles about 35 days
gptkbp:service gptkb:Dwarf_planets
gptkb:Meteoroids
gptkb:Asteroids
Planets
Comets
gptkbp:solarConstant about 1,361 W/m^2
gptkbp:solarCycle about 11 years
gptkbp:solarFlares Yes
gptkbp:solarWind Yes
gptkbp:spectralType G2V
gptkbp:sunspots Yes
gptkbp:temperature about 5,778 K
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Donald_Menzel
gptkb:Astronomy_Photographer_of_the_Year
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6