Sun

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The Sun is more than 1.3 million kilometers (808,000) miles across, and is 15 million degrees Celsius (about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit). Also, the Sun has been burning for about five billion years.

The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at tempuratures of millions times degrees E.M. K.L.

The Sun is a star! (not one from Hollywood) K.D. K.P.

The sun is hot-LL CM MW

The the sun is hot, the sun is not a place where you can live, but here on earth there'd be no life without the light it gives! K.P. K.D

The Sun is essential to life on Earth. Without it, the light would not reach the plants. Then, other animals eat the plants. Finally, other animals eat other animals. Without the Sun, This whole chain would fall apart. In many years from now, the sun will die out and all life as we know it will die.

If the sun were hollow, a million Earths could fit inside. And yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star. C.G.



The Sun Song! (The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas.../Why Does the Sun Shine? Preformed by They Might Be Giants) media type="custom" key="12778234" align="center"