Published:
December 27, 2010
 The Sun is a star with a diameter of approximately 864,000 miles (1,390,000 kilometers), about 109 times the diameter of Earth. The largest stars have a diameter about 1,000 times that of the Sun.
Photo by NASA/NSSDC
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