How Many Earths Could Fit Inside The Sun?

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Question: How many Earths could fit inside the Sun?

Answer: The sun is nearly a perfect sphere. Its equatorial diameter and its polar diameter differ by only 6.2 miles (10 km).

The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864,938 miles (1.392 million km).

About 1.3 million Earth could fit inside the Sun, an average sized star.

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