If there is no air in the universe how come the sun burns?

Question

i mean its on fire,and fire needs oxygen to burn

Answer 1

The sun actually burns from within through Nuclear Fusion, i.e., combining atoms.

Answer 2

The sun doesn't burn in the usual sense of the word. Instead it changes the element hydrogen into helium. This is called nuclear fusion and releases tremendous amounts of heat and other forms of energy. Nuclear fusion is the same process that happens in a hydrogen bomb, so at the center of the sun where its fusion occurs an immense hydrogen bomb has been exploding for the last 4.5-billion years, and will continue to do so for at least another 4-billion years.

Answer 3

The solar, like the universe as an entire, is principally hydrogen, and that hydrogen replaced into created in the seconds after the super bang, alongside with helium and an extremely little lithium. All different aspects have been made interior of stars by employing an analogous technique the solar makes use of, specifically nuclear fusion. in the 1st occasion, that fusion creates helium by employing fussing hydrogen. different aspects are made in stars in lots an analogous way, different than that the heaviest aspects (each and every thing previous iron in the periodic table) have been created in supernova explosions.

Answer 4

The sun is made up of heavy hydrogen molecules.
Hydrogen burns.Through most of the Sun's life, energy is produced by nuclear fusion through a series of steps called the p-p chain; this process converts hydrogen into helium.

Answer 5

Nuclear fussion, does not require air or oxygen. The sun is turning H2 into HE. No oxygen in that equation.

Answer 6

Its fusing hydrogen which doesn't require oxygen. Think of it as a really huge nuclear bomb that doesn't stop blowing up. The sun has vast amounts of hydrogen to convert to helium.

Answer 7

The sun is not burning chemically it is powered by fusion at the atomic level.

Answer 8

In the words of our most wise President George W. Bush, it's called a "nuculear" reaction

Answer 9

At present, there is no known atmosphere, like we have here on earth, anywhere else in our solar system and far beyond. This is a well prepared home we have. The sun indeed plays a major role in our living.

The suns source is of pure gas. What is happening is a combination of , implode & explode phenomenon--meaning one of the most powerful nuclear bomb explosions that is also imploding,meaning colapsing back to its energy source. Like when you inflate a baloon and let go at its neck to colapse, but trillions of times more complicated. Or when you see wreckers colapse a huge building and no objects fly away from that destructive sight, everything colapses inward, because of how the explosive charges are placed etc.
Concerning the sun, part of the reason is the electromagnetic & gravity forces on the sun among other things, that keep the gases in a controlled environment. Scientists have hardly been able to understand the process to any minor degree. So the proper placement of the right gases is indeed something the scientists still do not understand. Some have given the reason to these amazing things to the charge of the Creator, others still religate to the god of evolution accidently lighting the match. Please note these comments:

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A Giant Nuclear Reactor

Our sun is a big, bright ball composed of hot gases. The most common elements of which our sun is made are hydrogen, helium, calcium, sodium, magnesium and iron. But from where does the sun get its heat? Actually our star of the day is a kind of atomic furnace. The process is complicated indeed, but, basically, hydrogen gas in the sun is transformed into helium. Four atoms of hydrogen unite to make one atom of helium, and in the process much energy is released.

The surface temperature of the sun is said to be about 11,000° F. (6,000° C.). But because of its great distance from the earth only about one two-billionth (one two-thousand-millionth) of its radiant energy reaches the earth. Yet this amount is fully sufficient to provide ideal climatic conditions that make vegetable and animal life on earth possible.

If just a fraction of the sun’s fantastic amount of energy could be harnessed, man would solve his major problems with regard to heating and transport. If man knew how to use it effectively, it has been said that the sun could provide one and a half horsepower of energy for every square yard of the earth on which the sun shines.

*** ct chap. 6 pp. 88-90 An Ancient Creation Record—Can You Trust It? ***

In the 18th century, the scientist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier studied the weight of matter. He noticed that after a chemical reaction, the weight of the product equaled the combined weight of the original ingredients. For example, if paper is burned in oxygen, the resulting ash and gases weigh the same as the original paper and oxygen. Lavoisier proposed a law—‘conservation of mass, or matter.’ In 1910, The Encyclopædia Britannica explained: “Matter can neither be created nor destroyed.” That seemed reasonable, at least back then.

However, the explosion of an atom bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 publicly exposed a flaw in Lavoisier’s law. During such an explosion of a supercritical mass of uranium, different types of matter form, but their combined mass is less than that of the original uranium. Why the loss? It is because some of the mass of the uranium is converted into an awesome flash of energy.

Another problem with Lavoisier’s law on the conservation of matter arose in 1952 with the detonation of a thermonuclear device (hydrogen bomb). In that explosion, hydrogen atoms combined to form helium. The mass of the resulting helium, though, was less than that of the original hydrogen. A portion of the mass of the hydrogen was converted into explosive energy, an explosion far more devastating than the bomb released over Hiroshima.

As these explosions proved, a small amount of matter represents an enormous quantity of energy. This link between matter and energy explains the power of the sun, which keeps us alive and well. What is the link? Well, some 40 years earlier, in 1905, Einstein had predicted a relationship between matter and energy. Many know of his equation E=mc2. Once Einstein formulated that relationship, other scientists could explain how the sun has kept shining for billions of years. Within the sun, there are continuous thermonuclear reactions. In this way, every second, the sun converts about 564 million tons of hydrogen into 560 million tons of helium. This means that some 4 million tons of matter are transformed into solar energy, a fraction of which reaches earth and sustains life.

Significantly, the reverse process is also possible. “Energy changes into matter when subatomic particles collide at high speeds and create new, heavier particles,” explains The World Book Encyclopedia. Scientists accomplish this on a limited scale using huge machines called particle accelerators, in which subatomic particles collide at fantastic speeds, creating matter. “We’re repeating one of the miracles of the universe—transforming energy into matter,” explains Nobel laureate physicist Dr. Carlo Rubbia.

Please note another commentary about the former of "dynamic energy"--God.

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For example, the Bible invites readers to do this: “Raise your eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? It is the One who is bringing forth the army of them even by number, all of whom he calls even by name. Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one of them is missing.” (Isaiah 40:26) Yes, the Bible is saying that a source of tremendous dynamic energy—the Creator—caused the material universe to come into existence. This is completely in harmony with modern technology. For this reason alone, the Biblical record of creation merits our deep respect.

Answer 10

Who sais there is no air in the universe? If there was no oxygen there would be no stars.