Destination: 0 AU
Sun Travel
Everything you'd need to know before booking a one-way trip to the hottest place around.
The distance
149.6M
km from Earth
1 AU
the astronomical unit
3.8%
closer in January
How long to get there?
- Walking (5 km/h)3,400 years
- Car (100 km/h)170 years
- Jet airliner (900 km/h)19 years
- Apollo rocket (40,000 km/h)156 days
- Parker Solar Probe (690,000 km/h)9 days
- Light8 min 20 s
Pack light. Very light.
Core15,000,000 °C
Corona1,000,000+ °C
Photosphere5,500 °C
Sunspots3,500 °C
Fun facts
01
About 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the Sun.
02
The Sun holds 99.86% of all mass in the Solar System.
03
Its light is about 8 minutes old when it reaches you.
04
You'd weigh ~28× more standing on its surface.
05
It burns 600 million tonnes of hydrogen every second.
06
The Parker Solar Probe is the fastest human-made object ever.
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