Sun

The is the central star of the Solar .

It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma that has been heated to incandescence by fusion processes in its center and radiates mostly as visible light, ultraviolet light, and infrared radiation.

It is by far the most essential source of for Earth's life.

It has a diameter of approximately 1.39 million kilometers (864,000 miles), or 109 times that of the .

It has a around 330,000 times that of and contributes for approximately 99.86 percent of the total of the Solar .

Roughly three quarters of the 's  consists of hydrogen (~73%); the rest is mostly helium (~25%), with much smaller quantities of heavier elements, including oxygen, neon and iron.

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