It takes energy in the suns core about 1 million years to reach the surface.

Most photos of the sun depict it as being orange, red, yellow or a combination of the three. In reality, the sun is white. It appears yellow to us because of the blue light in the Earths atmosphere.

Did you know that its brighter than 85 of everything else in the entire Milky Way?

Its not the brightest thing on Earth though. That record belongs to the skybeam at the Luxor Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. At 42.3 billion candela, the Luxor Sky Beam is the strongest beam of light in the world.

It was a monster. At least thats what they used to think back in the day. One legend said it was a man with 3 eyes and 4 arms that was abandoned by his spouse for being too bright.

It causes revolutions - American historians and Russian scientists have connected revolutions to sunspots.

The American Revolution, French Revolution, Paris Commune, and both Russian Revolutions fell near times of maximum solar activity.

Sunspots were a secret. Galileo was the first to notice sunspots but he hid the discovery for fear of being persecuted.

The sun accounts for 44 of the Earths tidal energy while the moon accounts for the remainder.

The Sun can make us taller. When the sun and moon are in apogee, or pulling the Earth in the same direction, our bodies our stretched albeit only microscopically.

The same men who discovered the suns source of power helped build the atomic bomb.

In India pregnant women are sometimes kept indoors during an eclipse for fear that their babies will be born with cleft lips.

25 percent of people sneeze when exposed to sunlight.

The Attishoo Syndrome, which is sun-caused sneezing, is a real problem to people like fighter pilots. In fact, it has been dubbed the attishoo syndrome.

Tromso in the far north of Norway receives the same amount of annual sunlight as the tropics except all within a 10 week period.

The Sun accounts for about 99 of the mass of the entire solar system.

If it weren't for the sun, then comets wouldn't leave a trail of icy particles that always point away from the sun.

It's a celestial breeze made up of electrons and protons that have escaped from the Suns gravity and it is responsible for blowing those comet tails away from the Sun.

If you cut off a postage stamp sized portion of the sun it would shine with the intensity of 1.5 million candles.

Everyone knows the sun can be yellow and orange but did you know that it can be green? This phenomenon known as green flash is very rare.

Every year the Earth absorbs 94 billion megawatts of energy from the sun. That's immensely more than the worlds total energy use.

Every second the sun gives off the same amount of energy as 10 billion nuclear bombs.

If all the Suns energy were directed at Earth it would take only 3 minutes for it to melt the crust.

The solar wind is fast. It moves on average about 280 miles per second and takes only 4 days to reach the Earth.