• Question: What is the sun made out of?

    Asked by 942ntrd27 to Uday, NULL, Pierre, Irene, Chloe on 9 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Uday Bangavadi

      Uday Bangavadi answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Majority of sun consists of hydrogen and rest is helium. Apart from these little quantity of heavy elements like oxygen, Iron, neon, carbon.

    • Photo: NULL

      NULL answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Yep, mostly the sun is a gas called hydrogen.

      It’s a really light gas – if it was on earth it would float straight up. They used to fill balloons with it (and zeppelins), until they found out that hydrogen likes to explode.

    • Photo: Pierre Casaubielh

      Pierre Casaubielh answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Compounds were already provided, and yes they are very volatile… however the sun is massive!!! it is a big ball of burning hydrogen, its main fuel. The gravity on his surface is so big that the sun and hydrogen does not disappear, and when we wake up in the morning we can still see it.

    • Photo: Chloe Huseyin

      Chloe Huseyin answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      Like the others have said already it’s mostly a gas called hydrogen but there is no need to worry about the Sun running out of hydrogen any time soon as it’s estimated the Sun’s supply of hydrogen will last another another 5 billion years.

    • Photo: Irene Regan

      Irene Regan answered on 10 Nov 2015:

      I had to google this one for you;

      The Sun is a huge, glowing sphere of hot gas. Most of this gas is hydrogen (about 70%) and helium (about 28%).

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