For us humans, there is no star more important to our daily lives than the sun. The sun provides two important things required to support life: heat and light. Without heat, nothing would be able to survive, much less thrive, and without light, plants wouldn’t be able to grow, and without plants, all CO2 would not be converted back into oxygen, and so animals would die out very quickly. That’s not even touching on the fact that we wouldn’t be able to see, but that comes secondary if you can’t breathe. The sun is massive. The diameter of the sun is one-hundred and three times wider than the planet Earth, and ten times wider than the diameter of Jupiter, the second largest object in the solar system. The sun’s heat is also intense. As in, you will be melted and dead within seconds if you are closer to it than mercury. The sun also has sunspots, which are actually solar storms on the surface of the sun. That is one thing I never knew about the sun up until the point of writing this essay. Woo Hoo, I finally learned something that I found mildly interesting in Daniel Dignan’s science course. It only took him three and a bit years to teach me something interesting.