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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“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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