What is at the center of the sun?

Question

Is there anything inside the sun? Such as a different type of chemical/matter buildup?

Oh, since people are mentioning hydrogen undergoing nuclear fusion, I assume that's what the thread is going to say.

So I wanted to add, does the gravity density cause it to be solid?

Answer 1

The whole of the sun is made up of gasses... Mainly Hydrogen. Nuclear fusion smashes two of these hydrogen atoms together to form Helium and this also gives off massive amounts of energy. That energy makes more atoms colide and the process goes on and on... The bigger the attoms being fused, the more energy is needed and the less you get back.

Out of interest, our sun is only big enough to contain Hydrogen, Helium (2 hydrogens fused) and a tiny amount of Lithium (Helium fused with hydrogen)... But once upon a time it was big enough that nuclear fusion smashed ever bigger atoms together and it eventually formed everything up Iron... That's the point where the energy required is the same as the energy received in Fusion... thenit collapsed and the increasing energy of the collapse "super-accelerated" fusion so that it created all the heavier elements... then when it couldn't go any further, BOOM... Super Nova...

The planets formed from the material ejected from the sun at that time... So it's safe to say that a long time ago in a solar system not so very far far away, the very mater that makes up the earth and everything on it was in the core of the sun... Certainly makes you think!

T answer your "solidity" query, there is no solid matter in the sun, but just like Jupiter (made up of much the same stuff as the sun, just not quite big enough to start fusion), the gravity compresses the hydrogen at it's core so much that the nuclei of the atoms all bunch together and the electrons float freely around the mas of nuclei... and this is exactly what happens in any metal (which is why metals are conductors... thier electrons are free roaming)... So you end up with METALIC HYDROGEN, also known as HYDROGENIUM.

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

There is no "Solid" center. Any Hydrogen near to the center which has not undergone fusion is probably metallic. Not solid metal but liquid metal like the element Mercury. Dead center of the Sun is probly Hydrogen Plasma well on it's way in the fusion process. The same can be said for Jupiter and Saturn except there is no fusion.

Answer 3

A high proportion of hydrogen, a slowing increasing proportion of helium, and some heavier elements as well (lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, etc, all the way to uranium probably, in trace amount; those were not formed there, but just condensed from the same cloud that formed the earth, a gas cloud that got seeded by exploding supernova before), all of this at high pressure and temperature such that hydrogen can fuse into helium.

Answer 4

Just a very hot, dense plasma consisting of hydrogen and helium. The core is where the nuclear reactions that make the Sun glow occur. They only occur in the core because only there is there enough pressure to keep the nuclear reactions from blowing the Sun apart.

Answer 5

The core is in the center of the sun and it is going through nuclear fusion. Hydrogen turning into Helium.

Answer 6

hot hot hot

the core is where nuclear fusion takes place (how the sun gets most of its energy. It transforms hydrogen atoms in helium atoms.....it's the same nuclear fusion that we're trying to figure out by ourselves right now.....if we can....all our energy problems would be over

Answer 7

i did not understand this, as that's misguided The solar, and the planets with it are shifting a minimum of 486,000 mph, (776,000 kph) Britannica 1998 says that's traveling at 504,000 mph. the region decrease than has a table of the approximate velocity of the solar as shown at distinctive web content The inertia of an merchandise, earth, moon solar, you, or a tennis ball remains consistent except the article is acted on via an exterior rigidity. dark power, if it truly exists, acts on gadgets to alter their momentum, . The Earth spins at a fee of one million revolution in 24 hours in case you stand on the equator you're shifting at 1000 mph in case you stand on the north or south pole, you slowly rotate one each and every 24 hours, and don't whizz alongside in any respect.

Answer 8

Yeah, there's hot stuff in there alright. But if you took a huge stick made of unobtainium and poked the sun with it, it would just go through it and come out of the other side. Quite hot, I reckon.

Answer 9

Really squeezed hydrogen and a bit of helium and a few other trace elements.

Answer 10

the suns core consist of hydrogen and a little bit of other gasses. the sun is just a big ball of fire and gas