How big would our Solar System be if the Sun was an eleven-inch football/soccer ball? Alex and Jonathan set out to find the answer to this question, and visit each of the planets and planetoids along the way,

The Sun has fascinated humanity for millennia, but what exactly is it? While many once believed it was simply a "ball of fire," modern science reveals the Sun to be a massive nuclear fusion reactor, giving off heat and light through electromagnetic radiation.

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center ...

If this doesn't seem like a big deal, consider that every image you have ever seen of the sun was taken from around our star's equator. That is because Earth, the other solar system planets, and ...