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One million Earths could fit inside the volume of the Sun.

Why it is true

The Sun is a medium-sized star, but its scale is so vast that its volume could contain approximately one million three hundred thousand Earth-sized planets, illustrating the immensity of our solar system.

Source: Astronomy

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