The Sun
A middle-aged yellow dwarf holding 99.86 percent of the solar system's mass in place.
Where it is right now
The Sun is in Cancer, 1.01 AU away, magnitude -26.7.
Computed for 2 August 2026, 19:00 UTC, and recomputed at least hourly. This page is cached, so treat the line above as accurate to the hour rather than to the second. The map shows the live position.
Position from astronomy-engine's VSOP87-derived series, accurate to about an arcsecond.
Facts
Every line carries the source it came from.
- Mean radius
- 695,700 km, about 109 Earths acrossSource: NASA/JPL Sun Fact Sheet
- Share of system mass
- 99.86 percentSource: NASA/JPL Sun Fact Sheet
- Surface temperature
- 5,772 K at the photosphereSource: NASA/JPL Sun Fact Sheet
- Core temperature
- about 15.7 million KSource: NASA/JPL Sun Fact Sheet
- Rotation period
- 25.4 days at the equator, 36 days near the polesSource: NASA/JPL Sun Fact Sheet
- Age
- roughly 4.6 billion years, halfway through its main sequence lifeSource: NASA/JPL Sun Fact Sheet
Physical size
- Mean radius
- 695,700 km
- Diameter
- 1,391,400 km across
Orbit
Elements are heliocentric, referred to the J2000.0 ecliptic.
- Average distance from the Sun
- 0 km (0.0000 AU)
- Eccentricity
- 0.0000, almost perfectly circular
- Inclination to the ecliptic
- 0.00 degrees
- Orbital period
- unknown
- Longitude of ascending node
- 0.00 degrees
- Argument of periapsis
- 0.00 degrees
- Mean anomaly at J2000.0
- 0.00 degrees
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