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Sun and Moon

The Sun is a spherical star that makes up 99.86% of the mass in the Solar System. It is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium. The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and orbits our planet about 30 times the Earth's diameter. Due to its distance, the Moon appears nearly the same size in the sky as the Sun, allowing for total solar eclipses. It has influenced human culture throughout history.

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Sun and Moon

The Sun is a spherical star that makes up 99.86% of the mass in the Solar System. It is mostly composed of hydrogen and helium. The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and orbits our planet about 30 times the Earth's diameter. Due to its distance, the Moon appears nearly the same size in the sky as the Sun, allowing for total solar eclipses. It has influenced human culture throughout history.

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The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

It is almost perfectlyspherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields. It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 21030 kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.[13] Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. The remainder (1.69%, which nonetheless equals 5,628 times the mass of Earth) consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon and iron, among others.[14] The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth,[nb 4][7] and the fifth largestsatellite in the Solar System. It is the largest natural satellite of a planet in the Solar System relative to the size of its primary, having a quarter the diameter of Earth and 181 its mass.[nb 5] The Moon is the second densest satellite after Io, a satellite of Jupiter. It is in synchronous rotation with Earth, always showing the same face; the near side is marked with dark volcanic maria among the bright ancient crustal highlands and prominent impact craters. It is the brightest object in the sky after the Sun, although its surface is actually very dark, with a similar reflectance to coal. Its prominence in the sky and its regular cycle of phases have, since ancient times, made the Moon an important cultural influence on language,calendars, art and mythology. The Moon's gravitational influence produces theocean tides and the minute lengthening of the day. The Moon's current orbital distance, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth, causes it to appear almost the same size in the sky as the Sun, allowing it to cover the Sun nearly precisely in total solar eclipses.

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