The Sun's diameter is approximately 100 times Earth's radius, such that if one flew around it in a passenger aircraft, the journey would take on the order of a year, demonstrating how difficult it is to comprehend the size of even modest stellar objects.

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Brian Cox

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The radius is something like 100 times the radius of the Earth...it'd take something like months...a year to fly around the sun in a passenger aircraft

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Brian Cox: The quantum roots of reality | Full InterviewBig Think
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:24:53 AM

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