What is the temperature on the surface of the sun?

Answer 1

Surface Temp: 5785 K
Core Temp: ~13.6 MK

Answer 2

The sun is 4.6 billion years old. It is largely composed of hydrogen and helium. The sun is about 110 times bigger than the earth. It has many layers. The surface of the sun is called the photosphere. Its density is from one-millionth, to one ten millionth as dense as water. The photosphere gives off the sun's energy in forms of heat and light. Most of the sunlight we see is from its pebbly surface. The photosphere is 340 miles thick and it's temperature s range from 5,500 °C to 6,000 °C. It has dark spots called sunspots which are the only solar activity observable by the naked eye.

Above the photosphere the temperature is about 4,000 °C above that, the temperature rises to 27,800 °C. The region consists of hot gases in violent motion and is called the chromosphere. It displays fountains of flaming gases. The next layer below the photosphere is the convection zone. It is 60,000 miles thick and it's temperature can reach 2 million °C. The radiation zone is directly below the convection zone. Energy from the core rebounds for centuries before surfacing, and it is 300,000 miles thick with a temperature at up to 6.5 million °C. The core of the sun is under 200 billion times the pressure of the earth's surface. It is 60,000 miles thick and has a temperature that does not exceed 15 million °C. It's so hot that hydrogen is fused into helium.

Answer 3

The Sun is the most prominent feature in our solar system. It is the largest object and contains approximately 98% of the total solar system mass. One hundred and nine Earths would be required to fit across the Sun's disk, and its interior could hold over 1.3 million Earths. The Sun's outer visible layer is called the photosphere and has a temperature of 6,000°C (11,000°F). This layer has a mottled appearance due to the turbulent eruptions of energy at the surface.

Solar energy is created deep within the core of the Sun. It is here that the temperature (15,000,000° C; 27,000,000° F) and pressure (340 billion times Earth's air pressure at sea level) is so intense that nuclear reactions take place. This reaction causes four protons or hydrogen nuclei to fuse together to form one alpha particle or helium nucleus. The alpha particle is about .7 percent less massive than the four protons. The difference in mass is expelled as energy and is carried to the surface of the Sun, through a process known as convection, where it is released as light and heat. Energy generated in the Sun's core takes a million years to reach its surface. Every second 700 million tons of hydrogen are converted into helium ashes. In the process 5 million tons of pure energy is released; therefore, as time goes on the Sun is becoming lighter.

Answer 4

Loble-Murray-Rice. Earth Science. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Pretice-Hall, 1986. "Temperatures in the photosphere usually do not exceed 6,000 °C" 6,000 °C
World Book Encyclopedia Vol. 18. New York: World Book, 1996. "The sun's surface or photosphere is about 340 miles thick and its temperature about 5,500 °C" 5,500 °C
Davis, Dan & Anny Levasseur-Regourd. Our Sun. New York: BLA, 1989. "The Solar surface is not solid like the earth's, but its high temperature 5,700 °C …." 5,700 °C
Principles Of Science. Columbus, OH: Merrill, 1979. "… temperature of the sun is about 6,000 °C" 6,000 °C
Dichristina, Mariett. "Our Violent Star." Popular Science. 249, 3 (September 1996): 17. "… while the sun's surface (photosphere) is 5,600 °C" 5,600 °C

The sun is 4.6 billion years old. It is largely composed of hydrogen and helium. The sun is about 110 times bigger than the earth. It has many layers. The surface of the sun is called the photosphere. Its density is from one-millionth, to one ten millionth as dense as water. The photosphere gives off the sun's energy in forms of heat and light. Most of the sunlight we see is from its pebbly surface. The photosphere is 340 miles thick and it's temperature s range from 5,500 °C to 6,000 °C. It has dark spots called sunspots which are the only solar activity observable by the naked eye.

Above the photosphere the temperature is about 4,000 °C above that, the temperature rises to 27,800 °C. The region consists of hot gases in violent motion and is called the chromosphere. It displays fountains of flaming gases. The next layer below the photosphere is the convection zone. It is 60,000 miles thick and it's temperature can reach 2 million °C. The radiation zone is directly below the convection zone. Energy from the core rebounds for centuries before surfacing, and it is 300,000 miles thick with a temperature at up to 6.5 million °C. The core of the sun is under 200 billion times the pressure of the earth's surface. It is 60,000 miles thick and has a temperature that does not exceed 15 million °C. It's so hot that hydrogen is fused into helium.

Answer 5

Surface temperature 5785 K

Answer 6

The sun's surface or photosphere is about 340 miles thick and its temperature about 5,500 °C"
Thats really F'N hot!!!!


5500 degree Celsius = 9932 degree Fahrenheit

Now where are the bikini girls?

Answer 7

Its way to hot to get an accurate reading on this. its like the Tootsie Pop, the world will never know. Only a guess can be given.

Answer 8

5785 K

Answer 9

it is about 5800 k
= 5527 c
= 9980 f

Answer 10

it is 4000kelvin