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==Properties and Characteristics==
 
==Properties and Characteristics==
The sun accounts for 99.8% of our solar system's total mass. With a mass of 2 x 10<sup>30</sup> kg, an atmospheric temperature of about 5800 K, and a luminosity of 4x10<sup>20</sup> megawatts, the sun is by far the most extraordinary object during the day-time sky and of our solar system.
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The sun accounts for 99.8% of our solar system's total mass. With a mass of 2 x 10<sup>30</sup> kg, an atmospheric temperature of about 5800 K, and a [[luminosity]] of 4x10<sup>20</sup> megawatts, the sun is by far the most extraordinary object during the day-time sky and of our solar system.
 
However within our Milky Way [[galaxy]] it is one of probably 100 billion of the same types of stars.
 
However within our Milky Way [[galaxy]] it is one of probably 100 billion of the same types of stars.
  
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