Do you want to know some cool facts about the sun? The sun can be our friend but is very hot. Here are the top 7 facts  I think are cool about the sun. You really can’t look at the sun to see this, but a flare can happen every 11 years. A second fact is the sun contains 99.8% of all the mass in our solar system. Also it has been 5 billion years since the the sun was formed. Wow that was long ago.  This is a cool fact that I did not know but the sun is actually a star to our solar system. The size of the sun and the distance away from Earth are huge. Get ready, the size 1.3 million and it is 93 million miles from Earth, but only takes 8 minutes for the sunlight to reach Earth. Lastly, this is a cool fact, but even thought the sun look like it is big it is actually smaller compare to other stars. Well those were my seven  cool facts about the sun.