The Sun is vastly larger than the Earth in several key dimensions:
- Diameter: The Sun's diameter is about 1,391,000 kilometers (864,000 miles), which is roughly 109 times the diameter of Earth. This means you could line up 109 Earths across the face of the Sun
- Volume: The Sun's volume is so immense that about 1.3 million Earths could fit inside it if Earths were packed in without gaps
- Mass: The Sun is about 333,000 times more massive than Earth, containing 99.8% of the total mass of the entire Solar System
- Surface Area: The surface area of the Sun is approximately 12,000 times that of Earth
To visualize the size difference, if Earth were the size of a basketball, the Sun would be comparable to the length of a basketball court or even larger, showing how enormous the Sun is relative to Earth
. In summary, the Sun is about 109 times wider than Earth, can hold over a million Earths by volume, and is hundreds of thousands of times more massive
