It just so happens that the Sun is approximately 400 times larger than the Moon and also 400 times more distant from the Earth. Earth’s size compared with the Moon. Distances not to scale.

That’s 0.9833 astronomical units (au). An au is the average distance of the Earth to the Sun, a unit of measurement used by astronomers when measuring on a solar system-scale.

The Sun is mostly hydrogen and helium. Its core temperature is 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old. It's a G-type main-sequence star. Key takeaways sponsored by ...

The angle of the Earth's tilt is relatively stable, but there are some slight shifts over large time scales (tens of thousands of years). According to NASA, the angle is slowly decreasing.