• Question: What is the gravity like on the sun?

    Asked by 624brna47 to Áine, Ciarán, Eoin, Lydia, Victoria on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Lydia Bach

      Lydia Bach answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      Hello,

      the sun is about 333, 000 times bigger than the Earth’s and makes up over 99% of all mass in our solar system!
      Because gravity depends on the mass of a body the suns gravity is much stronger than gravity on earth. To be exact 28 times stronger than on earth.

      Say you weigh 50 kilograms on earth… If you could stand on the sun (if it wasn’t 6000 degrees C hot) it would feel like you weigh 1 400 kilograms.

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