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What is the size of the earth in comparison to the sun?

Answer 1

The sun is approximately 109 times the diameter of the earth.

The diameter of the sun is 1391,000 km, while the diameter of the Earth is 12,742 km. This means that the sun is 109.17 times the diameter of the Earth, or that the Earth is 0.00916 sun diameters.

In terms of volume, the sun would fit 1.3 million Earths, and in terms of mass, the Sun is #1.99xx10^30#kg and Earth is #5.97xx10^24#kg, so the sun is approximately 333,000 times as massive as the Earth.

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Answer 2

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The Sun is roughly 109 times larger in diameter than the Earth, with an estimated diameter of 1.39 million kilometers compared to 12,742 kilometers for the Earth.

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