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Our Sun is 4,500,000,000 years old. That's a lot of zeroes. That's four and a half billion. The Sun says that it's pretty old: wow, I'm pretty old!
Jun 23, 2022 · Scientists estimate that our Sun is about 4.57 billion years old. They're surprisingly confident about that number, too, which opens up an ...
Feb 13, 2015 · Our solar system is just over 4.5 billion years old, so the sun is slightly more than halfway through its stable lifetime. Even stars die.
The closest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light years away. That means the light from this star has to travel 4.2 years before we get to see it.
Mar 23, 2022 · The sun was born about 4.6 billion years ago. Many scientists think the sun and the rest of the solar system formed from a giant, rotating cloud ...
Jan 18, 2024 · The Sun burst into life around 4.6 billion years ago, which makes it the same age as the Solar System as a whole and around half a billion ...
Dating the Sun is an indirect process. There are several independent ways of estimating the age and they all give nearly the same answer: about 5 billion years.
Apr 18, 2023 · While we can't pinpoint the precise moment when it was born, our best estimate is that the Sun is about 4.6 billion years old.
We believe the Sun is 4.5 billion years old, give or take a few million years. The Sun formed 4.5 billion years ago from a cloud of ...