Editing Sun (section)

==Features==

The Sun is a G-type [[Main sequence|main-sequence star]]. It has about 99.86% of the [[mass]] of the [[Solar System]]. The Sun has an [[Magnitude (astronomy)|absolute magnitude]] of +4.83. It is brighter than about 85% of the stars in the [[Milky Way|Milky Way galaxy]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=January 2006|first=Ker Than 30|title=Astronomers Had it Wrong: Most Stars are Single|url=https://www.space.com/1995-astronomers-wrong-stars-single.html|access-date=2020-09-15|website=Space.com|date=30 January 2006|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lada|first=Charles J.|date=2006-03-20|title=Stellar multiplicity and the initial mass function: most stars are single|url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/503158|journal=The Astrophysical Journal |language=en |volume=640 |issue=1 |pages=L63–L66|doi=10.1086/503158|arxiv=astro-ph/0601375 |bibcode=2006ApJ...640L..63L|s2cid=8400400|issn=0004-637X}}</ref> The Sun is a [[Population I]] star,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Introductory astronomy & astrophysics|url=https://archive.org/details/introductoryastr0000zeil|last=Zeilik, Michael.|date=1998|publisher=Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning|others=Gregory, Stephen A.|isbn=0-03-006228-4|edition=4th|location=Belmont Drive, CA|oclc=38157539}}</ref>  i.e it a metal-rich fairly young star.

The Sun is the brightest object in the Earth's sky. It has an [[Magnitude (astronomy)|apparent magnitude]] of −26.74.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=1986|title=Stellar parameters|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF00190626|journal=Space Science Reviews|language=en|volume=43|issue=3–4|pages=|doi=10.1007/BF00190626|s2cid=189796439|issn=0038-6308|via=}}</ref> It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for [[light]] to travel from the Sun's surface to Earth's surface.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The real science behind the X-files : microbes, meteorites, and mutants|url=https://archive.org/details/realsciencebehin0000simo_a2o8|last=Simon, Anne Elizabeth, 1956-|date=2001|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=0-684-85618-2|edition=1st Touchstone|location=New York|oclc=48151793}}</ref>