• Question: how hot is the sun

    Asked by joeyboy to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 23 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Luna Munoz

      Luna Munoz answered on 23 Mar 2011:

      At its surface, it’s about 6000 degrees Celcius. I gave it to you in Celsius even though I only really understand Fahrenheit 😉

      Here’s a good link to an answer posted on NASA.

    • Photo: David Pyle

      David Pyle answered on 23 Mar 2011:

      The surface temperature of the sun is about 5800 K. This is just a little cooler than the Earth’s core. The centre of the sun is a thermonuclear reactor, and is likely to be a lot hotter.. perhaps 16 million K.

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