What is the Sun made of?

Question

I wonder whether the Sun is made of burning gas or if it is a burning planet. Please answer my question.

Answer 1

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho, its hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on earth thered be no life
Without the light it gives

We need its light
We need its heat
We need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
Thered be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot

It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others.

The sun is large

If the sun were hollow, a million earths could fit inside. and yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.

The sun is far away

About 93 million miles away, and thats why it looks so small.

And even when its out of sight
The sun shines night and day

The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own suns
Atomic energy

Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. the heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium.*

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Answer 2

It's been a while since I studied this, but the way I remember it, the sun is a star, not a planet. Stars are made up of plasma, which is basically ionized gas. The reason it generates heat (I wouldn't call it burning) is that when the star reaches a certain temperature (which it achieves thanks to gravity compressing it) the nuclei of the hydrogen at the center of the star start to merge to form helium (this is called nuclear fusion) and this process releases lots of energy in the form of heat. The temperature of the surface of the star is what determines how it shines (what kind of light it produces).

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

The sun is made mostly of Hydrogen.
There is such a lot of hydrogen that gravity is compressing it to such a high pressure that hydrogen atoms are being forced together to form Helium atoms. This is a process called nuclear fusion and generates a lot of energy, which is why the sun radiates so much heat and light.
Eventually all the hydrogen will have been used up and there'll be mostly helium left. At that point it's the end of the Sun. But that's still millions of years away.

Answer 4

The Sun is basically a small star,made up mostly of hydrogen and possibly other mass structures which serves as a catalist to form Nuclear fusion. You can say its a burning celestial body giving off light.However its not a combustion process which will also give of light. The difference is that its a celestial Nuclear Fusion Reactor which depends on fusion of hydrogen .There are other processes which also take place in the fusion reactions.This gets more involved.

Answer 5

"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas", in the words of They Might Be Giants. Actually, the sun is mostly plasma, which is ionized gas, not burning gas. It could not be a planet because it is too massive. Jupiter is not massive enough to be a star, if it were several masses greater, Jupiter would start producing heat in its core, and begin to shine, it would be a brown dwarf. If a brown dwarf had more mass, at some point it would be a red dwarf, then an orange dwarf, then a yellow dwarf, like our sun.

Answer 6

Burning gas

Answer 7

The Sun is a Population I, or third generation, star which formation may have been triggered by shockwaves from one or more nearby supernovae . This is suggested by a high abundance of heavy elements such as gold and uranium in the solar system. These elements could most plausibly have been produced by endergonic nuclear reactions during a supernova, or by transmutation via neutron absorption inside a massive second-generation star.

Photospheric composition (by mass)
Hydrogen 73.46 %
Helium 24.85 %
Oxygen 0.77 %
Carbon 0.29 %
Iron 0.16 %
Sulphur 0.12 %
Neon 0.12 %
Nitrogen 0.09 %
Silicon 0.07 %
Magnesium 0.05 %

Answer 8

neither. since the sun is in a vacuum with no oxygen it cannot truly "burn". instead, the gases are so hot that they are stripped of their electrons. this is called a plasma which is yet another state of matter to confuse you. the sun is just another star, made out of hydrogen and helium. the helium comes from fusing hydrogen together, releasing tremendous amounts of energy.

Answer 9

Sun is made up of burning gases: Hydrogen & Helium. It is not a planet. It is a star.

Answer 10

the sun is a star in the 'main sequence' stage. this means that it burns hydrogen gas. when that gas runs out we should start to get scared, because we will no longer have a light source.