Mr.+Sun,+Sun,+Mr.+Golden+Sun+Please+Shine+Down+on+Me

Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun...



Welcome to the sun. This is one "spicy meatball." Seriously, there is no meat in this ball, but is instead a gigantic ball of gas. It is made up of about 93% hydrogen (the rest is helium, a wee bit of oxygen, some neon, even less magnesium, and a few other things thrown in for good measure) that is constantly be turned into helium ashes. Here is a little song to help you better understand what the sun is all about:  The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, A gigantic nuclear furnace. Where hydrogen is built into helium, At the temperature of millions of degrees.  The sun, my friends, is uninhabitable, which essentially means we cannot up and move there in order to try for that "killer tan." It is over 27,000,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and the pressure is far more than any you have experienced on even the worst test day (billions stronger than Earth's pressure). We must stick to our tanning here on Earth. Let's travel on and see what we can find.

**Distance from the sun: **This is the sun, my friends. Therefore, there is no travel necessary. **Distance from Earth:** About 150,000,000 km (about 93,000,000 miles). That is like traveling around Earth about 6,021 times. **Planetary Make-up:** The sun is not a planet. It is actually a star which is, conveniently, close enough to Earth to give us life. It is made up of hydrogen (the major ingredient), helium, neon (is this why it glows so bright?), and a bit of magnesium. **Moons:** Since it is a star, the sun has no moons. It would probably just burn them up anyway because it doesn't play well with others. **How the sun got its name:** The Roman word for "hot" was sun. Therefore, it is a pretty fitting name, right?