Is there water on the sun???

Answer 1

Like all stars, the sun contains every known element, including oxygen and hydrogen. And in some places the sun's oxygen and hydrogen even combine to form H2O, or water.

Now, as you know, the sun is really hot. How hot? Really, really, really hot! So hot, in fact, that nearly all its atoms, including oxygen and hydrogen, float around without attaching to each other to form molecules.

But some parts of the sun are hotter than others. Sunspots, for example, those large, dark splotches on the sun's surface, are relatively cool. What makes sunspots less hot than other parts of the sun are their incredibly strong magnetic fields. The strong magnetic affect pushes most of the sun's gas aside, creating a slightly less hot space in the middle of the spot. There, things are just cool enough for the remaining atoms, including oxygen and hydrogen, to momentarily bond.

This doesn't mean that there are liquid oceans on the sun, of course. It's still too hot for that. In fact, it's still so hot that if you could throw a hunk of iron into the center of a sunspot, it would immediately vaporize. So no one water molecule lasts for very long. But sunspots do contain trace amounts of H2O in vapor form. And that's still water on the sun!

Answer 2

The compound H2O has not been observed in the spectral analysis of the sun. It is safe to say there is no water as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.

This is to be expected due to the high solar temperatures.

All elements are NOT present in the sun or any star. Most of our sun is hydrogen which is being fused into helium. Elements heavier than iron cannot be made by normal fusion and require the force on the order of a supernova.

Answer 3

No, there is no water on the sun. The surface is 6000 deg C warm and all molecules are split into atoms. The sun consists pretty much of hydrogen (75 %) and helium (25 %) with few traces of other elements, but no molecules (actually helium was discovered for the first time by looking at the sun's spectrum, but that's another story). Deeper down in the sun the temperature is even higher and even atoms are split apart into electrons and atomic nuclei.

Answer 4

No, I think it's basically hydrogen and helium. No significant amount of oxygen to make water (with the hydrogen).

And at the sun's temperatures, water would probably be an unstable compound.

Answer 5

Absolutely not! Water couldn't even get near the sun without evaporating!

Answer 6

Are you kidding ???/
it is impossible ,,, becoz even if sun contains water,,,,,, sun is so hot,,, all water will evaporate,,,,,,,,

sun encompess of large amount of hydrogen,,,,,, there is fusion of 4 hydrogen atom to form 1 helium atom,,,,,,,,, the weight of 1 helium atom is lesser than 4 hydrogen atom,,,,, hence the difference between the weight is converted into energy

Answer 7

As far as we know no water on Sun.Surface temp. is of the order of 6000DegC while at the core it couldbe millions of DegC. There ia Hydrogen and Helium but no water.

Answer 8

Not in liquid form, certainly. There is plenty of hydrogen (>90% by mass), and there is oxygen, so you have the basic ingredients. I think the Sun is too hot in most areas for molecules to exist; we usually think of solar abundances in terms of elements. So no.

Answer 9

how will there be water on the sun??????? sun is a huge mass of hot gases.. not cold gases which will melt on heating,.. understand????

Answer 10

Yeah.There are even glaciers on the sun!