does the sun have any solid matter or is it all gasses?

Answer 1

Actually it is mostly plasma. Plasma is technically superheated gas but it really should be the fourth state of matter. In plasma, some of the electrons are stripped away from the nucleus of the atom making an ion. For the Sun, since it is mostly hydrogen consisting of one proton and one electron, this means that we have a bunch of free protons and electrons flying around.

Answer 2

The sun has no solid matter; it is too hot, but it has plasma; the fourth state of matter.

The coolest place on the sun are in the sun spots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspots, but even here the temperatures are at 4000-4500 K which is above the melting point of any element or material that I know of.

At the core of a star the pressure is so strong that it can collapse an atom in a process known as fusion. The pressures here may make it seem like the matter is solid, but it is a plasma; extremely hot and moving. Inside of the solar matter the molecules are moving so fast that they can't form a solid. The temperatures here are above the melting points of most elements.

Hydrogen is the primary fuel of a star, but when it runs out of hydrogen it tries to fuse helium, then lithium and so on up to iron. As it rises along the periodic table it gets larger and cooler. By the time a star is trying to fuse iron it is a red giant and immense, thousands of times its original size. At this point the star either explodes in a nova or super-nova or it collapses into a white dwarf. If the star is over 20 times the size our star this collapse continues to form either a Neutron Star or a Black Hole.

The densest matter is the degenerate matter of a Neutron Star which would be pure neutrons. However, the temperature and pressures are so great that this matter would still be in a plasma like state. But, it might be thick enough and cool enough on the surface to act like a solid.

Our Sun, Sol, has about 4 billion years left in its lifespan. It is too small to go nova so it will collapse into a white dwarf; before it does though it will expand out to the current orbit of the Earth. The Earth will be a baked solid with no life on it, a dead planet, but the planet itself will still survive.

Answer 3

It's all a plasma (which is often considered the 4'th state of matter) but at the core of the Sun, it's far denser than lead sine it's mostly a solid 'chunk' of protons that are fusing together and releasing huge amounts of energy.

Doug

Answer 4

solid hydrogen plasma which has density the same as iron

Answer 5

it has both solid and gaseuous layers as well as liquid.