2007-05-15 08:41:44 · 11 answers · asked by melgarjuan24 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
What's the difference between a lump of mud and a burning log? Stick your hand in both and tell us...or perhaps flip to the back of your text book and use the index to find your own answers.
I swear there should be a automatic "I'm so lazy I can't even Google it myself" point deduction.
2007-05-15 08:52:00 · answer #1 · answered by fleetwind141 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sun is made up of the same components that stars are made from, carbon. the difference between the earth and the sun is that the earth doesn't shoot out solar flames, nor give off any light like the sun.
2007-05-15 08:46:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
One is a planet, one is a star.
The Sun's mass is about 333,000 times Earth's mass. An object at the Sun's surface would weigh 28 times as much as it does on Earth's surface!
The Sun is 1,391,000 kilometers (862,400 miles) in diameter. Earth is 12,742 kilometers (7,900 miles) in diameter.
Temperature range on the Sun: 6,000ËC - 15,000,000ËC
Earth: 49ËC - - 85ËC.
2007-05-15 09:06:18 · answer #3 · answered by CircleSeven 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Superficially: the sun is a huge, dense, flaming luminary around which all other planets within its gravitational sphere revolve, and the earth is neither a luminary, nor the center of the solar system.
2007-05-15 08:47:29 · answer #4 · answered by Em 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sun is a star, the earth is a planet.
2007-05-15 17:45:09 · answer #5 · answered by kwilfort 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sun is a big flaming ball of gas and the earth....is not.
2007-05-15 08:48:51 · answer #6 · answered by Helen Scott 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One is a rocky body, 75% covered by liquid water.
The other is an enormous fusion furnace, converting four million tons of matter into energy every second.
Oh, and the enormous ball of plasma has one million times the volume of the rocky ball.
2007-05-15 08:46:12 · answer #7 · answered by John T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To quote TMBG: The sun is a mass of incandescent gas.
2007-05-15 08:53:39 · answer #8 · answered by JLynes 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you really need to post this question four times in as many minutes? You won't get your answers any faster by doing that.
2007-05-15 08:46:23 · answer #9 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
roughly 150 million km
2007-05-15 08:50:11 · answer #10 · answered by Poetland 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋