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  • Why is the Sun round?
  • Will the Sun ever stop shining?
  • What happens during a solar eclipse?
  • Why are sunspots darker than the rest of the Sun?
  • How big is a sunspot?
  • Why does the Sun have spots?
  • Does the Sun move in space?
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How large is the Sun compared to Earth?

Compared to Earth, the Sun is enormous! It contains 99.86% of all of the mass of the entire Solar System. The Sun is 864,400 miles (1,391,000 kilometers) across. This is about 109 times the diameter of Earth. The Sun weighs about 333,000 times as much as Earth. It is so large that about 1,300,000 planet Earths can fit inside of it. Earth is about the size of an average sunspot!

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