Our solar system is small compared to the Milky Way galaxy. The Sun contains 99.9% of the matter in our solar system and is very powerful. It is 4.6 billion years old and could fit about a million Earths inside it.
Our solar system is located in the Milky Way galaxy. Our solar system contains the sun, planets, satellites and planetary rings, asteroids, comets and other dust particles. The Sun contains 99.9% of the matter in the solar system, but contains only a small amount of the matter in the Milky Way galaxy. If we imagine the Milky Way to be the same size as the United States, our solar system would be only one-quarter the size of it. The size of the United States is more than 9 million square miles, while a quarter is less than 1 inch in diameter. This means that we can fit about 597 billion of our solar systems into the Milky Way galaxy. It also means that our solar system makes up 1.6754386e-10% (00000000016754386%) of the Milky Way galaxy. And since our Sun contains about 99.9% of all matter in our solar system, we can also say that our Sun contains about 1.6754386e-10% of the matter in the Milky Way galaxy.
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The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old.
About a million Earths could fit inside the Sun.
If we wanted to match the energy of the Sun, we would have to detonate about 100 billion tons of dynamite per second.
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