• Question: wats the temperature of the sun

    Asked by allstarsam7399 to Donna, Jo, Mark, Stuart, timcraggs on 20 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by rocksrock, bellmymum.
    • Photo: Donna MacCallum

      Donna MacCallum answered on 18 Jun 2010:

      Hi AllstarSam

      Temperature of the sun (according to Wikipedia) is apparently 5,505 °C or 5,778 Kelvin – that’s seriously hot!

    • Photo: Joanna Buckley

      Joanna Buckley answered on 19 Jun 2010:

      Hiya Sam. Good chatting to you!

      The surface is 5000 degrees celcius but if you dare venture into the core then you’re in for a surprise… it’s about 15 million degrees! That’s seriously hot.

      I’ve always thought that it would be so amazing to develop a suit which can survuive extreme temperatures like this. You’ve heard of moon walking… why not sun walking?!

    • Photo: Mark Lancaster

      Mark Lancaster answered on 20 Jun 2010:

      About 6,000 deg C at the surface but what’s most important is that in the core it is much hotter (a few million degrees) due to the pressure created by gravity – this pressure is so great that it means hydrogen atoms fuse together to form helium and this releases the energy that allows life on earth.

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