Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • How long is a day on the sun? at first might seem like a stupid question.

  • A day is how long it takes the sun to come back overhead.

  • Doesn’t happen on the sun, unless youre standing upside down, in which case days on

  • the sun are infinitesimally short and your hair is on fire.

  • But maybe a day is how long it takes to spin around relative to the distant stars, in which

  • case different parts of the sun have different days because it’s a big ball of flowing,

  • gassy plasma and different parts rotate at different rates: relative to distant stars,

  • the sun’s equator rotates once every 24 and a half earth days, while near the poles

  • it rotates roughly every 34 earth days.

  • Or maybe a day is simply eighty six thousand and four hundred seconds, in which case a

  • day on the sun is slightly longer than a day on the earth due to gravitational time dilation.

  • Or maybe a day is the time a human can survive without breathing, times 360, in which case

  • a day on the sun isdefinitely your last.

How long is a day on the sun? at first might seem like a stupid question.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it