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Sun (Sol)

Our star is a single yellow main sequence star with 8 planets and several dwarf planets. The surface temperature is 5770 kelvin, the temperature in the center is 15,6 million kelvin.

Age: 4.6 billion years
Distance: 8 light-minutes
Spectral class: G2
Visual magnitude: -26.8
Luminosity: 1 * Sun
Mass: 1.9884 * 1030 kg
Diameter: 1 392 000 km

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To the lower left is a Sun flare.
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