{"id":42364,"date":"2023-02-27T09:17:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T09:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/?p=116400"},"modified":"2023-02-27T10:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T10:32:37","slug":"how-hot-is-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/rss_feed\/how-hot-is-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"How hot is the Sun?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Find out about the internal structures of our host star and their different temperatures. <\/p>

By Amy Arthur\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Monday, 27 February 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The hottest part of our Sun is its core, where nuclear fusion reactions create temperatures up to 15 million degrees Celsius (\u00baC) or 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (\u00baF), according to NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here, 500,000 kilometres below the surface, immense pressure fuses hydrogen molecules together to make helium, releasing energy as heat and light in the process.<\/p>\n

This heat radiates out from the core, through the 700,000 km of the Sun<\/a>\u2019s radius.<\/p>\n

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