Let’s try to ask a “fantastic” question: what would happen if the Sun were reduced to a size smaller than the Earth?
Every time you look at the night sky, you see hundreds of thousands of stars shining on it. You realize that the Earth is extremely large and vast. As the 3rd planet out of 8 planets orbiting the Sun, Earth is also the largest of the rocky planets including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. However, compared to the gas planets in the solar system, the Earth is really very small.
Specifically, Neptune – the most distant planet in the solar system has a diameter of 3.86 times the diameter of Earth and can hold 36 Earths inside. Together with Uranus, this gaseous planet measures 3.98 times the diameter of Earth and can contain 40 Earths inside. However, these gaseous planets are still “nothing” compared to Saturn, which is 9,449 times the diameter of Earth and can hold 540 Earths inside. In particular, Jupiter – the “giant” of the solar system has a diameter of 1097 times the diameter of the Earth, the same mass as 318 times, and contains 890 Earths within.
So compared to the Sun, how many times smaller is our Earth? According to scientists’ calculations, if we consider the size of the Sun as a basketball, our Earth will only be the size of a sesame seed. In other words, 1.3 million Earths are needed to fill the volume of the Sun.
Let’s try to ask a “fantastic” question: what would happen if the Sun were reduced to a size smaller than the Earth?
