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Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter (including other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and dust) orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
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It is often said that the Sun is an "ordinary" star. That's true in the sense that there are many others similar to it. But there are many more smaller stars than larger ones; the Sun is in the top 10% by mass. The median size of stars in our galaxy is probably less than half the mass of the Sun.
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The Sun is an average star, similar to millions of others in the Universe. It is a prodigious energy machine, manufacturing about 3.8 x 1023 kiloWatts (or kiloJoules/sec). ... At that time, our Sun will be known as a red giant star. If the Sun were more massive, it would collapse and re-ignite as a helium-burning star.
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A star is a ball of ionized plasma that gives off vast amounts of energy by nuclear fusion in its centre. This is for most of its life by fusing hydrogen into helium. Our sun is called a star for exactly this reason.
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/340594
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The Sun is a star. It is a rather ordinary star - not particularly big or small, not particularly young or old. It is the source of heat which sustains life on Earth, and controls our climate and weather. It is the closest star to Earth, and the most closely studied.
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imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/sun.html
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A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System: ... one star, eight planets, and more ... The Sun...
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