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  • How Many Planets Could Fit Inside the Sun? - A Space Exploration
    It's impossible to say exactly how many planets could "fit" in the sun because:

    * The sun is a sphere, and planets are not perfectly shaped for packing. You can't just stack planets like oranges.

    * Planets vary in size. Jupiter is much larger than Mercury.

    * The question doesn't define how we're "fitting" them. Do we try to pack them tightly? Do we allow them to overlap?

    However, we can get a rough idea:

    * The sun's volume is about 1.3 million times larger than Earth's.

    * The combined volume of all planets in our solar system is less than 1/1000th the sun's volume.

    This means you could theoretically fit a *lot* of Earths inside the sun. But even with all the planets in our solar system combined, they would only occupy a tiny fraction of the sun's space.

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