NASA's Probe Flew 6.2 Million KM From the Sun

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:00]Start with Earth.

[00:00:02]66 trillion tons of rock, iron, water, everything.

[00:00:06]Our sun contains 333,000 Earths worth of matter.

[00:00:12]If you piled every Earth ever made into our sun's volume, you would still not fill it.

[00:00:19]Every second, 4 million tons of that mass becomes light.

[00:00:24]Roughly 1,400 blue whales erased from existence, converted directly into radiation.

[00:00:32]In 1 second, the sun releases more energy than human civilization has ever consumed, multiplied by millions.

[00:00:41]It has been doing this for 4 and 1/2 billion years.

[00:00:45]It will do it for 5 more.

[00:00:47]And the sun is just one ordinary main sequence star.

[00:00:51]There are approximately 100 billion like it in this galaxy alone.