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Original – The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields. It has a diameter of about 1,392,684 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2×1030 kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.
Reason
It is an image with great resolution, holds an outstanding EV.
Articles in which this image appears
Sun, Star, List of Solar System objects by size, etc.
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures#Space
Creator
NASA

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 19:26, 12 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]