• Question: How many Earths can fit inside the Sun?

    Asked by anon-174657 to Alex, Tim, Yewande on 22 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 22 Jun 2018:

      Quite a lot…!

      The volume of the sun is 1.412 x 10^18 km^3.
      The volume of the earth is 1.083 x 10^12 km^3.

      If we divide the volume of the sun by the volume of the earth, we get ~1.3 million. So 1.3 million earths could fit inside the sun. Big number!

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