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How did the sun catch fire?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When we are talking about the burning of the sun, we aren't talking about something that is similar to burning a pile of leaves in the back yard. Stars are massive balls of gas, and they are so huge that pressures and temperatures within them become great enough to start nuclear reactions that release large amounts of energy. A lot of this energy remains within the body of the sun, so that fuels are not used up the same way we think of using up that pile of leaves...

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At the core of the sun, gravitational attraction produces immense pressure and temperature, which can reach more than 27 million degrees F (15 million degrees C). Hydrogen atoms get compressed and fuse together, creating helium. This process is called nuclear fusion.

 

Nuclear fusion produces huge amounts of energy. The energy radiates outward to the sun's surface, atmosphere and beyond. From the core, energy moves to the radiative zone, where it bounces around for up to 1 million years before moving up to the convective zone, the upper layer of the sun's interior. The temperature here drops below 3.5 million degrees F (2 million degrees C). Large bubbles of hot plasma form a soup of ionized atoms and move upwards to the photosphere.

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Seems to me it would make more sense to describe the alleged person + actions leading you to your conclusion if your goal was to protect the users of this site. I'd have to question the motivations of someone who is more interested in decrying the mods of a site than exposing the supposed "NSA type" operating within.

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