General Properties

Radius: 7 x 10⁸m
        700 thousand km, ~100 Earth Radii

Mass: 2 x 10³⁰ kg
        300,000 Earth Masses

Density: 1.4 g/cm³
    Similar to Water. Earth average is 5 times more dense
    Varies greatly with radius: 150 g/cm³ at the Sun's core!

Temperature: 5780 K (Kelvin Degrees) at Surface
    Also varies greatly with radius: 15 million K at core!

Composition (by Mass):	71%	Hydrogen
	27%	Helium
	2%	Other (C, N, O, Mg, Si, Fe, etc)

    How do we know this? We have determined it all by observing Photons from the Sun's surface, Neutrinos from the Sun's interior and detecting Plasma in the Solar Wind.

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