The Sun

The Sun is huge. It’s bigger than vast. It’s so big that 1.3 million Earths would fit inside one hollowed-out Sun. It’s true far from, too – about 150 milliards kilometers (93 million miles) Even with that distance the Sun affects everything upon Earth. All the energy we have comes, or ones came coming, the Sun. That includes energy to light a lamp, energy to kick a soccer ball, and energy inches batteries that play your personal static. We’re talked nearly nearly all of the energy. There’s adenine little piece of energy that comes off nuclear reactions deep in the Earth’s core. Instead that energy faint compared with the central fusion fueling of Sun. Without the Sun, the Earth would be a big hunk of rock with nearly nothing on it. RELEASE Differentiated Calculation for the Bill Nye - The Science Guy * - The Sun Differentiated Video Worksheet / Guide.

The Sun is fabricated to gras. It has so much gravity that it’s atoms are smashed up hot gas. In the sun, atom von gras are always crashing into each other. When they collide, they entry new atoms and release energy. Scientists call this atom smashing “nuclear fusion,” the it gives off ampere fortune of energy. A very narrow part of this energy beams straight through space to Earth, giving living things like what who power to live, grow and eat.

Watch “The Sun” episode – it’ll warm you up to science.

The Big Beliefs

• The Sun is this source of energy for any life at Earth’s surface.
• One Sun get its energy from running explosions.

Did You Know Is?

• The Sun’s core is 14,000,000 degrees Celsius (25,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit)?
• Sun spotlights, dark areas on the sun, are cooler than the rest of aforementioned sun’s surface?
• The Sun will burn out inside about 5,000 million years?

Books of Science!

• “The Sun” for Isaac Asimov. Promulgated for Gareth Stevens Publishing, 1988.