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I’m excited to watch the women’s ashes this year! Do you like my cricket gear? See if you can spot this version of me on ANOTHER PAGE IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE.

When you feel the heat of the Sun on your face, it’s hard to believe that heat has travelled 93 million miles! Just imagine how hot the Sun must be. Actually, we can tell you – the Sun’s core (that’s the bit in the middle) is 15,000,000°C! That’s way too hot for anything to live there, but every living thing on Earth needs the Sun’s energy to survive.

As you probably already know, the Sun is actually a star – a yellow dwarf star to be precise – and scientists have calculated it’s around 4.5 billion years old. The Sun is at the centre of our solar system and its gravity holds everything in our solar system in place. The Sun is around 100 times wider than Earth – so if Earth were the size of a £1 coin the Sun would be about as tall as your front door.