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The Sun
G2V · Yellow Dwarf
Our local star — a 4.6-billion-year-old furnace of hydrogen fusion whose light and gravity anchor every world in the solar system. The alchemist's gold, fallen from the sky.
1 AU (149.6 million km)
G2V · Yellow Dwarf
Did You Know
- ◆The Sun contains 99.8% of the solar system's mass.
- ◆Its core reaches 15 million °C.
- ◆In alchemy, the Sun is gold — the perfected metal, the goal of the Great Work.