• Question: how many earths can you fit in the sun

    Asked by 424eura39 to Philip on 11 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      None! Ha ha, it’s already full!
      Well, to be serious, that’s another one for Wikipedia.
      Anyway, the Sun is about 109 times as wide as the Earth and volume goes as the cube of the radius, so 109³ or about 1295029.

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