ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio USA

Here the Solar Statistics are -

Distance from the Earth - 149.8milion km.

Absolute Visual Magnitude - 4.75.

Diameter - 1,384,000km.

Core Temperature - 15 000 000k.

Photosphere Temperature - 5770k.

Rotation as seen from the Earth -

(at the Equator) 25.38days.

(near the poles) 33days.

Chemical Composition -

Hydrogen 710/0 .

Helium 26.50/0 .

Other Elements 2.50/0 .

Age - About 4.5bilion years.

Expected lifetime of a normal star - About 10 billion years.

The Sunlight is the only thing, which provides the life energy to the Earth. May be,for this reason,we consider Sun as a God.

According to the Chinese mythology, there were ten Sun brothers,who went to the sky to play and for that,the world became very hot. After that the hero Hou Yi killed nine suns and save the world. The Chinese mythology also says that, a heavenly magical dog bites a piece of the Sun and causes the solar eclipse.

According to the Buddhist cosmology, the Suryaprava and the Chandraprava - these two bodhisattvas create the Dong Fang San Sheng or the Three Holy Sages of the East.

In Indonesia, in some cases the Sun is considered as the father or founder of the tribe.

In Africa, the Munshi tribe says that, the Sun is the son of the Awondo.

In Aztec mythology, the Sun is the head of Tollan, heaven.

In Greek mythology, it is said that, the movement of the Sun,in the sky represents the struggle between the Pharaoh’s soul and an avatar of Osiris as a matter of fact.

In our country, Lord Rama was from the Suryavansa and Karna was one of sons of the Lord Surya.

In the tv channel ‘Samay’ we have seen a program ‘Suraj ki Shans’(11th November). This program claimed that Sun breathes too. And to take a breathing,it takes 140 minutes. This program was taking examples from the mythology of our country too.

‘Suraj ki Shans’could not give us any conclusion. But, it made us more curious about the Sun.