Mass Of The Sun:
It must come as no surprise to you that the Sun is a massive object. Though just how massive, really, is it? How can we state the mass of the Sun in terms which can be comprehended? The scientific notation is commonly used; we come up with the figure 1.989 x 1030 kg when we go to four significant figures. This is merely a little less than 2 nonillion kilograms or 2 octillion metric tons.
How big is 2 octillion? It is symbolized numerically as a 2 with 27 zeros after it. In scientific notation it is 2 x 1027. We can divide this up into 2x 109x 109 x 109. Now visualize a huge box 2,000 kilometers (km) high by 1,000 km broad by 1,000 km deep. [A thousand kilometers is around 620 miles (mi); 2000 km is around 1240 mi.]. Assume that now that you are called on to stack this box carefully full of little cubes measuring 1 millimeter (1 mm) on an edge. These cubes are analogous in size to grains of coarse sand.
You start stacking these little cubes with the help of tweezers and a magnifying glass. You look up at the box towering high above the Earth's environment and spanning numerous states or provinces (or even entire countries) over the Earth's surface. You can visualize it might take you quite a while to complete this job. If you could live long adequate to complete the task, you would have heaped up 2 octillion little cubes that is the number of metric tons in the mass of our Sun. A metric ton is a little more than an English ton. The Sun is off course a massive chunk of matter. Though it is small as stars go. There are plenty of stars which are a lot of times larger than our Sun.