Does the sun have a type of atmosphere?

Question

The sun has fire in a sense, so does this mean it has a type of atmosphere that is basically on fire(fusion)? Or is it more like a large nuclear ocean(more solid, not a gas)?

Answer 1

It does have layers of gasses above the plasma part, so I'd say you could call it that.

Answer 2

The sun is all gas, so you might say that it is all "atmosphere". We usually refer to the photosphere, the 1000 km thick yellow region that we see as the atmosphere. It is mostly hydrogen, some in it's usual gaseos state, and some in ionized form, called plasma. But you would call it gas, not solid, in the sense that atoms are going all over the place, not looked into place like atoms in a solid.
The sun is not on fire, in the sense of burning. There is no hydrogen combining with oxygen. The sun's yellow glow is the same as the glow any 6000 degree object would have. The "flames" that you see shooting out from the surface as solar flares or prominences are hot, glowing hydrogen. [Of course, the flame that you see over a candle is hot, glowing air (and combustion gases).

Answer 3

The parts of the Sun above the photosphere are referred to collectively as the solar atmosphere. They can be viewed with telescopes operating across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio through visible light to gamma rays, and comprise five principal zones: the temperature minimum, the chromosphere, the transition region, the corona, and the heliosphere. The heliosphere, which may be considered the tenuous outer atmosphere of the Sun, extends outward past the orbit of Pluto to the heliopause, where it forms a sharp shock front boundary with the interstellar medium. The chromosphere, transition region, and corona are much hotter than the surface of the Sun; the reason why is not yet known.

Answer 4

No atmosphere any gases near the sun will just be converted to energy. Mostly hydrogen gas which is in 2+ form and gets fused into energy and H+. An atmosphere is a gaseous outer layer of a planet and the sun is mostly gas and superliquid.

Answer 5

Sun is a star in Hydrogen burning stage. The nuclear reaction forces material outwards. This ejected material spreads around Hydrogen layer. This is normally referred to as non-burning envelope. The byproduct of this nuclear reaction leaves behind Helium (you may call it ash!). Helium being heavier than hydrogen it gets accumulated in the core below Hydrogen layer. Hence the whole of Sun is gas.
In nuts shell the sun has a Helium-rich core and a thin shell surrounding the core where Hydrogen is still being converted into Helium. The outermost layers of Sun expand greatly because of the increased size of the Hydrogen-burning shell.