Interesting facts about our sun (24 Photos)

1 million years
It takes energy in the sun’s core about 1 million years to reach the surface.

It’s really bright
Did you know that it’s brighter than 85% of everything else in the entire Milky Way?

It’s not the brightest thing on Earth though
That record belongs to the skybeam at the Luxor Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. At 42.3 billion candela, the Luxor Sky Beam is the strongest beam of light in the world.

It causes revolutions
That’s right, American historians and Russian scientists have connected revolutions to sunspots. Don’t believe us?

The proof is in the pudding
The American Revolution, French Revolution, Paris Commune, and both Russian Revolutions fell near times of maximum solar activity.

Sunspots were a secret
Galileo was the first to notice sunspots but he hid the discovery for fear of being persecuted.

Tidal Energy
The sun accounts for 44% of the Earth’s tidal energy while the moon accounts for the remainder.

The Sun can make us taller
When the sun and moon are in apogee, or pulling the Earth in the same direction, our bodies our stretched albeit only microscopically.

It will make you sneeze
25% of people sneeze when exposed to sunlight.

The Attishoo Syndrome
That sneezing thing we just talked about? Well, it’s a real problem to people like fighter pilots. In fact, it has been dubbed the attishoo syndrome.

Condensed sunlight
Tromso, in the far north of Norway receives the same amount of annual sunlight as the tropics except all within a 10 week period.

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Solar wind
It’s a celestial breeze made up of electrons and protons that have escaped from the Sun’s gravity and it is responsible for blowing those comet tails away from the sun.

3 minutes
If all the Sun’s energy were directed at Earth it would take only 3 minutes for it to melt the crust.