Our Very Distant Sun
Many persons don't really appreciate just how tremendously distant our Sun really is because it can be so blistering hot on summer days and it seems so prominent in our sky. But in reality, what seems to be a fairly nearby sun is actually an almost unimaginably enormous distance away. Here are some examples to illustrate just how distant our sun really is.
The Sun is approximately 93,000,000 miles (150,000,000 km) or 1 AU (Astronomical unit) from Earth.
Light traveling at 186,000 miles per second takes a full 8.3 minutes to reach us.
Voyager 1 speeding through space ~ at 38,000 mph which is approx 24 times faster than a bullet would take 101 days.
A Boeing 747 at cruising at ~550 mph which would traverse the continental United States in approx six hours would take over 19 years.
A car traveling at 70mph, would take 152 years
A horse galloping at ~30 mph, would take a whopping 354 years l
Walking at ~3 mph, would take you a brief 3,540 years which is almost a thousand five-hundred years longer than the time elapsed since Jesus walked the Earth 2000 years ago.
So whenever at the beach you think the sun is near-think again
Many persons don't really appreciate just how tremendously distant our Sun really is because it can be so blistering hot on summer days and it seems so prominent in our sky. But in reality, what seems to be a fairly nearby sun is actually an almost unimaginably enormous distance away. Here are some examples to illustrate just how distant our sun really is.
The Sun is approximately 93,000,000 miles (150,000,000 km) or 1 AU (Astronomical unit) from Earth.
Light traveling at 186,000 miles per second takes a full 8.3 minutes to reach us.
Voyager 1 speeding through space ~ at 38,000 mph which is approx 24 times faster than a bullet would take 101 days.
A Boeing 747 at cruising at ~550 mph which would traverse the continental United States in approx six hours would take over 19 years.
A car traveling at 70mph, would take 152 years
A horse galloping at ~30 mph, would take a whopping 354 years l
Walking at ~3 mph, would take you a brief 3,540 years which is almost a thousand five-hundred years longer than the time elapsed since Jesus walked the Earth 2000 years ago.
So whenever at the beach you think the sun is near-think again
