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Sun

Diameter (km)1392684
Equator (km)4370005
Temperature5778000

<p>The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. </p>It is a sphere of plasma, with inner convective movement that generates a magnetic field by means of a dynamo process. It is by far the main source of energy for life on Earth. Its diameter is about 1.39 million kilometers (864,000 miles), or 109 times that of Earth, and its mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth. It accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System. Roughly three quarters of the Sun's mass is composed of hydrogen (~73%); the remainder is mostly helium (~25%), with much smaller amounts of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon, and iron.The Sun is a G-type main-sequence celebrity (G2V) based on its spectral class. As such, it's informally rather than completely accurately referred to as a yellow dwarf (its light is closer to white than yellow). It formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of matter within a region of a large molecular cloud. Whereas the remainder flattened into an orbiting disk that became the Solar System, most of this matter gathered in the center. The central mass became dense and so hot that it initiated nuclear fusion. It is believed that almost all stars form by this process.



The Sun fuses about 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second, converting 4 million tons of matter into energy every second. This energy, which may take 170,000 and between 10,000 years to escape from its core, is the origin of the Sun's light and heat. When hydrogen fusion in its core has diminished to the point where the Sun is no more in hydrostatic equilibrium, its core will undergo a marked increase in density and temperature while its outer layers expand, eventually transforming the Sun into a red giant. It is calculated that the Sun will become sufficiently large to engulf the orbits of Venus and Mercury, and render Earth uninhabitable -- but not for about five billion years. After this, it will shed its outer layers and become a dense type of cooling star called a white dwarf, and no longer produce energy by fusion, but still glow and give off heat from its previous fusion. The Sun on Earth's effect has been recognized since ancient times, and some cultures as a deity have seen the Sun. Its orbit around the Sun and the synodic rotation of Earth will be the basis of solar calendars, among which is the calendar in use today.

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Pluto

Diameter (km)2368
Distance to sun (km)5945900000
Temperature-240

Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is an icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It was the first and the largest Kuiper belt object to be discovered. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and declared to be the ninth planet from the Sun. After 1992, its status as a planet was questioned following the discovery of several objects of similar size in the Kuiper belt. In 2005, Eris, a dwarf planet in the scattered disc which is 27% more massive than Pluto, was discovered. This led the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to define the term "planet" formally in 2006, during their 26th General Assembly. That definition excluded Pluto and reclassified it as a dwarf planet. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object directly orbiting the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume but is less massive than Eris. Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is primarily made of ice and rock and is relatively small—one-sixth the mass of the Moon and one-third its volume. It has a moderately eccentric and inclined orbit during which it ranges from 30 to 49 astronomical units or AU (4.



4–7.4 billion km) from the Sun. This means that Pluto periodically comes closer to the Sun than Neptune, but a stable orbital resonance with Neptune prevents them from colliding. Light from the Sun takes 5.5 hours to reach Pluto at its average distance (39.5 AU). Pluto has five known moons: Charon (the largest, with a diameter just over half that of Pluto), Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Pluto and Charon are sometimes considered a binary system because the barycenter of their orbits does not lie within either body. The New Horizons spacecraft performed a flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015, becoming the first ever, and to date only, spacecraft to do so. During its brief flyby, New Horizons made detailed measurements and observations of Pluto and its moons. In September 2016, astronomers announced that the reddish-brown cap of the north pole of Charon is composed of tholins, organic macromolecules that may be ingredients for the emergence of life, and produced from methane, nitrogen and other gases released from the atmosphere of Pluto and transferred 19,000 km (12,000 mi) to the orbiting moon.

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