Sun in 3D: live position and orbit

The star at the heart of the Solar System. This ball of plasma holds 99.86% of all the mass orbiting it.

Sun is shown at its real position, computed from NASA/JPL ephemeris data. The view opens on Sun; you can travel in time, switch between the educational overview and the true-scale voyage, and compare it with every other body of the solar system.

Radius

695 700 km¹

Mass

1.99 × 10³⁰ kg¹

Surface gravity

274.00 m/s²¹

Effective temperature

5 499 °C¹ (derived value)

Sidereal rotation (latitude 16°)

25 days¹

Axial tilt

7.3°¹

Missions

• Voyager
• Viking Project
• Ulysses
• Mars Pathfinder
• Mars Global Surveyor
• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Mission
• Cassini-Huygens

Perihelia

• November 6, 2018: Parker Solar Probe
• April 4, 2019: Parker Solar Probe
• September 1, 2019: Parker Solar Probe
• January 29, 2020: Parker Solar Probe
• June 7, 2020: Parker Solar Probe
• June 15, 2020: Solar Orbiter
• September 27, 2020: Parker Solar Probe
• January 17, 2021: Parker Solar Probe
• February 10, 2021: Solar Orbiter
• April 29, 2021: Parker Solar Probe
• August 9, 2021: Parker Solar Probe
• September 12, 2021: Solar Orbiter
• November 21, 2021: Parker Solar Probe
• February 25, 2022: Parker Solar Probe
• March 26, 2022: Solar Orbiter
• June 1, 2022: Parker Solar Probe
• September 6, 2022: Parker Solar Probe
• October 12, 2022: Solar Orbiter
• December 11, 2022: Parker Solar Probe
• March 17, 2023: Parker Solar Probe
• April 10, 2023: Solar Orbiter
• June 22, 2023: Parker Solar Probe
• September 27, 2023: Parker Solar Probe
• October 7, 2023: Solar Orbiter
• December 29, 2023: Parker Solar Probe
• March 30, 2024: Parker Solar Probe
• April 4, 2024: Solar Orbiter
• June 30, 2024: Parker Solar Probe
• September 30, 2024: Parker Solar Probe
• September 30, 2024: Solar Orbiter
• December 24, 2024: Parker Solar Probe
• March 22, 2025: Parker Solar Probe
• March 31, 2025: Solar Orbiter
• June 19, 2025: Parker Solar Probe
• September 15, 2025: Parker Solar Probe
• September 16, 2025: Solar Orbiter
• December 13, 2025: Parker Solar Probe
• March 3, 2026: Solar Orbiter
• March 11, 2026: Parker Solar Probe
• June 8, 2026: Parker Solar Probe
• August 19, 2026: Solar Orbiter
• September 4, 2026: Parker Solar Probe
• December 2, 2026: Parker Solar Probe
• February 6, 2027: Solar Orbiter
• February 28, 2027: Parker Solar Probe
• May 27, 2027: Parker Solar Probe
• July 6, 2027: Solar Orbiter
• August 24, 2027: Parker Solar Probe

Sources

1. NASA NSSDCA, Planetary and Satellite Fact Sheets. read 2026-09-17. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/planetfact.html