The Sun. What exactly is it and where did it come from?

Question

Is the sun the center of the universe and is it the reason for the big bang? Or did it arrive after the big bang?

Answer 1

what i saw on PBS was that after the big bang or some event, there was dust and debris floating around, and when particles started clumping together, they were held together by their own gravity, which in turn made those clumps get bigger and bigger, until you get a star like the sun, where its gravity is so powerful that it fuses atoms together in its core to make different elements. the sun basically is a burning ball of gas and plasma, as well as a nuclear fusion plant where elements are made by fusing together atoms. the sun is not the center of the universe, and it is not the reason for the big bang, rather the result of the big bang. there are billions of stars like our sun in the universe, and billions of galaxies like ours as well.

Answer 2

The sun is a star made up of some of the same elements that are on Earth, including hydrogen which is what the sun burns. All stars were formed during the "big bang". The universe has no center.

Answer 3

The sun is a star, one of billions in the universe. It is at the center of OUR solar system. It is not a center (far from it) of the universe and is a little average (if a bit small) as far as the size of stars goes. The sun arrived after the big bang because it gathered all this dust and gas together until it became big enough to become a star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

Answer 4

The Sun is an usual average stars with average temperature and size. It is composed of hydrogen and helium. Helium is it main source of energy (about 4 million tons of helium is used every second!).

The Sun is the center of the Solar System, but not the center of the Universe. The Sun is one of the 300 billions stars in our galaxy, Milky Way. Our galaxy is far from the center, and we are still moving away from it.

The Sun was not the reason for the Big Bang, it came 5 billion years after it.

Answer 5

The sun is a star. It came about after the " big bang" theory. It is not the center of the universe but our solar system, which includes eight planets that orbit it. There are billions of stars in the whole universe. As huge as the sun is to us, (a million Earths can fit into the sun) it is like a small piece of dust compared to the entire universe.

Answer 6

The sun is an "average" star. Anywhere you pick can be the "center" of the universe, as it has no end in any direction you travel. Our sun is only a small part of the big bang. There are billions of stars out there. Many of them much larger than our sun. In a few billion years our sun will become a red giant. And in the process will destroy Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars...

Answer 7

as far as i know, the sun is actually a star and it is one of God's creation. it is the center of the solar system we know but i am not sure if it is the center of the universe as we have no measurement of this.

the sun is the source of light. God said, "Let there be light", and there was light...

do not be confused about what science has already proven with respect to the evolution of everything as compared with what christians believe. the bible and science do not contradict each other, but rather proves each other correct. so to say, the big bang theory may actually be true as everything from nothing came into existence after a big bang, and amazingly the same what the bible tells us, that nothing came into existence but through Him.

Answer 8

The sun is a big ball of hydrogen. it is not the center of our universe. it is not the reason of the big bang but just a by product like most everything else. If you want to see its location download celestia... its free.