Weather on Sun

The thermonuclear heart of our solar system, fusing 600 million tons of hydrogen every second.

Orbital Telemetry Live

Sun

+5505°C

Diurnal Temperature Swing 🌡️

+5505°C Avg

Day Peak: +5505°C | Night Low: +5505°C

Atmosphere & Pressure 💨

0.868 bar (Photosphere); Core: 250 billion bar

Superheated plasma corona reaching over 1 to 2 million °C, far hotter than its surface.

Supersonic Winds & Storms 🌪️

Continuous solar wind streaming past Earth at 400 to 800 km/s (over 1.4 million km/h).

Coronal mass ejections, solar flares, and twisting magnetic sunspots triggering geomagnetic storms.

Mission Data Provenance 🛰️

In-Situ Corona & Heliophysics Probes

Continuous multi-wavelength heliophysics telemetry from NASA's Parker Solar Probe, SDO, and ESA's Solar Orbiter.

Complex things. Made simple.

What would it feel like to experience the weather on Sun?

The Sun has no solid ground. Its visible 'surface' (the photosphere) is a bubbling ocean of plasma at 5,505°C. Counter-intuitively, the Sun's thin halo atmosphere—the corona—is heated by magnetic reconnection to over 1.5 million °C.

Distance from Sun / Earth

149.6 million km (1 AU)

Solar Rotation / Day Cycle

609 Hours

Primary Atmosphere

Superheated plasma corona reaching over 1 to 2 million °C, far hotter than its surface

3D Orbital Mesh

Real 3D GLB Model

Frequently Asked Questions About Sun

Verified science answered in plain, accessible language.

The visible surface of the Sun (photosphere) is approximately 5,505°C (9,941°F). However, its outer halo atmosphere (corona) reaches an astounding 1,000,000 to 2,000,000°C due to magnetic reconnection heating.

The solar wind is a continuous stream of charged protons and electrons ejected by the Sun. It races across the solar system at speeds ranging from 400 to 800 km/s (1.4 to 2.8 million km/h).

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has repeatedly 'touched' the Sun by diving deep into the corona, shielded by a 4.5-inch carbon-composite heat shield that endures temperatures exceeding 1,400°C.