The star everything goes round. The Sun is a star, the nearest one: a ball of hot gas 109 Earths across that holds 99.8% of everything in the solar system. Its light, made in its core at 15 million °C, takes 8 minutes 20 seconds to reach us.
A drawing, not a photograph: the Sun is a ball of hot gas with no fixed surface to map. It’s drawn the way it behaves: its surface boiling in cells, and dark sunspots in the two bands either side of its equator, which come and go over weeks. The cells are drawn bigger and bolder than life so you can see them: the real ones you could see from here are about the size of France, too small to show.
Drawn by EqualGlobe from how the Sun behaves, from NASA’s published measurements.