• Question: Is the sun really that hot?

    Asked by anon-225888 to Sameed, Jose, joannabarstow, Heidi, Freya, Chris on 20 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Joanna Barstow

      Joanna Barstow answered on 20 Nov 2019:


      The sun is roughly 5500 degrees C, and the hottest stars can be several times hotter than that. So yes, it is really that hot. The very outermost region of the sun, called the corona, is very thin but that is even hotter, in excess of a million degrees.

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