By the Numbers
This is how many Jupiters it would take to fill up the Sun.
What is 1,000?
This invisible force holds the massive amount of hydrogen gas together and creates the Sun's intense internal pressure.
The two main things emitted by the photosphere that make life on Earth possible?
What are heat and light?
The intense temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, found at the Sun's scorching core.
What is 27 million?
The specific scientific process where hydrogen atoms collide with enough force to meld into a new element.
What is nuclear fusion?
The layer of the sun where energy finally breaks free and emits heat, light, and charged particles?
What is the photosphere?
The sun releases more energy than all humans consume in a year every (this amount) millionths of a second.
What is 1.5?
The new element that is created when Hydrogen atoms smash together inside the core.
What is Helium?
The name for the stream of charged particles that pushes against interstellar space billions of miles away.
What is solar wind?
The number of stars in the cosmos, among which our Sun is just one.
What are billions and billions?
The vast, bubbling middle highway of the sun that energy must travel through right after leaving the core.
What is the convective zone?
The phrase used to describe the fire rings formed around comets when they get close to the Sun's heat.
What are fiery halos?
This is the main, overall reason why the Sun can create massive amounts of heat and pressure, while a planet made of the same gas (like Jupiter) can not.
What is because the Sun is much bigger/has more mass/has more gravity?