The Biggest Object in Our Solar System
The largest object in our solar system is the Sun. It is a G-type main sequence star (also called a "yellow dwarf") and contains 99.8% of all the mass in the solar system, vastly outweighing every planet, moon, and asteroid combined
. The Sun has a diameter of about 1,391,000 km (864,000 miles), making it more than 100 times wider than Earth
How Many Earths Could Fit Inside the Sun?
- By Volume: You could fit about 1.3 million Earths inside the Sun if you packed them in with no gaps
- By Mass: The Sun is about 333,000 times more massive than Earth
Measurement| Sun| Earth| How Many Earths Fit?
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Diameter| 1,391,000 km| 12,742 km| 109 Earths across Sun's face6
Volume| 1.412 x 10¹⁸ km³| 1.083 x 10¹² km³| ~1,300,00068
Mass| 1.988 x 10³⁰ kg| 5.972 x 10²⁴ kg| ~333,0006
In summary:
The Sun is by far the biggest object in our solar system, and you could fit
about 1.3 million Earths inside it by volume
