Is the sun hotter than lighting.?

Question

It means which is hotter.

Answer 1

this is just my opinion, but i would think the sun is hotter. people get struck by lightning and don't always die. however, you would definitely die if anywhere near the sun.

Answer 2

You have probably learned that the air heated by lightning can reach a temperature of 54000 degrees Fahrenheit. Or at least something close to this.

On the other hand, the temperature of the sun is not quite so simple. The sun has four regions or layers and you may be finding temperatures for several of them.

The temperature within the central region of the sun may reach 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. So it is much hotter than lightning. Likewise, the Sun's atmosphere, consisting of the chronosphere and corona, is also hotter than lightning. The chronosphere's temperature may reach 40 thousand degrees Fahrenheit; the corona exceeds 3 million degrees Fahrenheit.

It is often said that lightning is 5 times hotter than the sun -- what this refers to is the top of the photosphere, often called the surface of the sun. The temperature there reaches almost 10 thousand degrees Fahrenheit.

So, lightning is 5 times hotter than the SURFACE of the sun.

However, this surface is not solid like the earth's surface, rather it is gaseous just like the Sun's atmosphere, only denser.

Answer 3

The sun. Lightning is generated by charged particles from the solar wind that end up in our atmosphere. Though I have heard that lightning can reach extremely high temperatures.

I'm not sure about the veracity of this, but I have been told the temperature in question can be equal to the sun's surface.

Answer 4

thunder_kok says no, lightning is hotter

Answer 5

What she said