Question
The sun is very large compared with the other objects in our solar system. It’s 865,270 miles in diameter. That's more than 100 times the diameter of Earth, and the sun has more than 300,000 times the mass of our planet.
There are billions of other suns in space, but we don't call them “suns.” We call them stars. The sun is also a star, and it’s the closest one to Earth.
Our solar system has many different kinds of objects in it, and all of them revolve around the sun. The largest of these space objects are called planets. Our solar system has eight of them. Planets must meet four requirements to be called planets:
They orbit the sun.
They are round or almost round.
They have cleared the area of its orbit.
They are not satellites or moons of another planet.
The sun is a ________.
A
asteroid
B
star
C
planet
D
moon
There are billions of other suns in space, but we don't call them “suns.” We call them stars. The sun is also a star, and it’s the closest one to Earth.
Our solar system has many different kinds of objects in it, and all of them revolve around the sun. The largest of these space objects are called planets. Our solar system has eight of them. Planets must meet four requirements to be called planets:
They orbit the sun.
They are round or almost round.
They have cleared the area of its orbit.
They are not satellites or moons of another planet.
The sun is a ________.
A
asteroid
B
star
C
planet
D
moon
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The sun is a **B star**.