Star · system origin
Sun
The source of the system’s light, heat and orbital structure.
The Sun is not simply the brightest object in the scene. It is the physical origin around which the planetary system is organised, and its scale sets the reference for every distance and body size that follows.
- Orbit representation
- Physical surface reference
- Surface
- Textured emissive surface
Reference measurements
The numbers that shape this world
- Mean radius
- 695,700 kmReference value used by the scene scale strategy.
- Diameter
- 1,391,400 km
- Scene role
- System origin
- Physical basis
- Physical surface reference
Scale
Every other body begins here
Exploration mode enlarges small worlds and compresses distance for navigation, but the Sun’s sourced radius remains the anchor for the transformation. Scientific mode keeps the same scene system while changing the scale profile.
Reading the visual
Light is expressive; the data stays separate
Corona, glow and surface motion communicate stellar character. They are visual layers, not measurements of a specific solar event. Current solar activity belongs on the Data page with its own observation and retrieval times.
Representation notes
What Explore is showing
The Sun is fixed at the scene origin. Visual rotation and corona treatment are illustrative layers around sourced physical scale.
The surface texture and corona effects follow the project asset limits and do not claim to reproduce a current solar observation.
Provenance