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The Earth and other solar planets revolve around the Sun (Latin sol ). The Sun is a class G2V main-sequence hydrogen-fusing star (its white color appearing yellow due to atmospheric scattering). It is about 1.4 million km (870,000 miles) in diameter, and thought to be about 4.6 billion years old.

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