Question

What is the sun?
A. A star
B. A planet
C. A rock
D. A water body

Answer 1

Hint: The sun is the largest object in the solar system. Our Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the items that circle it. The most apparent objects that revolve around the sun are the eight planets, and the rest being smaller bodies like dwarf planets. The sun comprises $99.8\%$ of the system’s mass.

Complete Answer:
The Sun is the core of our solar system. It is a yellow dwarf star, a hot orb of glowing gases. Its gravitational pull keeps the solar system intact, everything from the largest planets to the tiniest particles of debris stays in its course. There are electric currents in the Sun that produce a magnetic field which is carried out through the solar system by the solar wind—a stream of electrically charged gas emitting outwards from the Sun in all directions. The sun is 147.27 million km away from earth. The radius of the sun is 696340 km. Although the sun is the center of the solar system, there are billions of other stars like it across the universe. Therefore, like many others, the sun is a star. The sun is a medium sized star, and the largest object in the solar system.
Hence, the correct answer is Option, ‘A. A star’.

Note: It must be noted that a star is a huge object consisting predominantly of Hydrogen and helium. It is huge enough to have a gravitational pull of its own. A planet, on the other hand, is any object that revolves around a star. Therefore the two must not be confused.