• The Sun
  • Mercury
  • Venus
  • Earth
  • Mars
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Uranus
  • Neptune
  • Pluto

  • The Sun

  • Mercury

  • Venus

  • Earth

  • Mars

  • Jupiter

  • Saturn

  • Uranus

  • Neptune

  • Pluto

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Mercury
It is 57,950,000 kilometers from the Sun
It is 62.45m northwards along Centurion Way
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To scale the Sun would be 1500mm in diameter
The Sun
This would be equal to:

Ten standard Biro pens,
Five 30cm Rulers,
Four Bowling Pins,
One Ariana Grande
To scale the Sun would be 1500mm in diameter
The Sun
This would be equal to:

Ten standard Biro pens,
Five 30cm Rulers,
Four Bowling Pins,
One Ariana Grande
Did you know?
  • Our Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old star.
  • Our Sun is made of hydrogen and helium at the centre of our solar system.
  • The Sun is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth
  • The Sun’s volume would need 1.3 million Earths to fill it
  • The hottest part of the Sun is its core, where temperatures top 15 million degrees Celsius
  • The Sun doesn’t have moons, but it’s orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids, and perhaps three trillion comets and icy bodies.