What is the sun made up of?

Answer 1

Mostly Hydrogen with a good portion of Helium, some Oxigen, Carbon, Iron and smaller amounts of everything else you can think of.

Pressure and temperature are so high that's why it glows.

Answer 2

The sun doesn't contain any minerals at all - it's too hot for big molecules to stay together. The sun is made up of two main elements, hydrogen and helium. Hydrogen makes up about 92% of all of the atoms in the sun while helium makes up about 7.8%. Oxygen, carbon, neon and nitrogen make up most of the remaining 0.2%.

Answer 3

What is the Sun made of? Spectroscopy shows that hydrogen makes up about 94% of the solar material, helium makes up about 6% of the Sun, and all the other elements make up just 0.13% (with oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen the three most abundant ``metals''---they make up 0.11%). In astronomy, any atom heavier than helium is called a ``metal'' atom. The Sun also has traces of neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, sulfur, potassium, and iron. The percentages quoted here are by the relative number of atoms. If you use the percentage by mass, you find that hydrogen makes up 78.5% of the Sun's mass, helium 19.7%, oxygen 0.86%, carbon 0.4%, iron 0.14%, and the other elements are 0.54%.

Answer 4

Hydrogen with a helium core. Deep inside the sun, the gravitational pressure is so great that hydrogen nuclei are fusing together to form helium. This process releases energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation, which we experience as heat and light. If the sun is massive enough, helium nuclei may be fusing to form carbon.

Answer 5

Mostly hydrogen and helium, although the entire Periodic Table can be found in it. That's where elememts are created. There are a number of endo- and exothermic reactions that creates the elments. As it turns out, iron is the last element made. It is essentially the lowest state 'ash' that a fusion reactor can produce.

Answer 6

The majority of the Sun's material is hydrogen. But there is also helium, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, silicon, magnesium, neon, iron, and sulfur.

I believe these are the same by-products that result from eating fajita's and drinking beer.

Answer 7

The sun is made of burning gas, mostly hydrogen. This gas is so hot that some people consider it to be a fourth state of matter called plasma.

Answer 8

The sun is made up of a mixture of nitrogen, hydrogen, and helium.

Answer 9

Hydrogen, Helium, Carbon, and other material.

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/AskKids/suncomp.shtml
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/FAQ/Qcomposition.html
http://www.bnsc.gov.uk/lzcontent.aspx?nid=4735
http://education.jlab.org/qa/sun_01.html

This is simply a few of the websites I found after typing your question into Google.
No offence to the rest of the Y!Aers here, but you can usually find better information in on-line encyclopedias and databases for many questions than they (or myself) could give.

Answer 10

Hydrogen, Helium, Carbon and lot of other stray gases