What is the diameter of the Sun?
The Sun's diameter is 1.4 million kilometers. But to most people, that doesn't mean a whole lot!
Imagine the last road trip you took. Even a trip across a state, province, or country can seem to take forever (even if your little sister isn't poking you). Think about how long it would take to travel around the whole Earth (say at the equator). It would take you over 100 times as long to drive around the Sun's equator. In fact, the Sun is so big that if it were hollow, you could fit over one million Earth's inside of it. Now your local McDonald's has probably sold more burgers than one million, but that is still A LOT!
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