why is the sun so fat and farty????????? TELL me?
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what kind of question is this? The suns not fat your fat, how do you know if the sun farts? can you smell it?
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Fat is a certain type of tissue filled with water.  So part of it gets sweated or peed out.  It also gets converted to energy and used up.
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Gravity, because the sphere is the most economical shape in the universe.  It holds the most mass in the smallest area.  It is why planets have their shape as well, I was not aware that Nuclear fusion had any effect on the shape of the sun...\n\nmay you forever learn and forever ask
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The sun does attract the earth quite a bit. That's what keeps the earth orbiting it instead of flying off into space.
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check out this site for general information\nwww.nineplanets.org/sol.html \n\nhttp://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/\n\nhttp://www.spaceweather.com/\n\n\nthese are just some sites. is there anything in particular that you would like to know about the sun??
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It's our fault that the Sun can no longer serve as a God.\n\nBack when the Sun was worshipped as a deity, it fit all of the descriptions of God. It was benevolent (i.e. provided warmth, and light) and yet far away and mysterious. When it was gone, bad things happened (i.e. night and storms) and when it came back, it was cause for celebration.\n\nNow, however, Man has defeated the only foe which keeps a god a God and which keeps a belief a Faith. Mystery. We know now exactly what the Sun is, and why its there, and why it does what it does. Why it comes and why it goes no longer has anything to do with sacrifices or sins, but gravity and weather. We know it now, and understand what it is going to do, and our knowledge of it has removed it from contension as a god, and has demoted it to a mere drop of hydrogen, burning away harmlessly in an enormous and mysterious cosmos, which the scientists are worshipping on there own.\n\nFor now.
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Yes the Sun is a star.\n\nAnd off topic...\n\nDoes anybody find excessive cutting and pasting a boor??
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Because sun is needed for plants to go through photosynthesis, (this is what makes it turn green and grow). and so humans can eat it.. giving them the energy
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Everyone has gas. It's not abnormal even though it is embarassing. Usually it comes from the types of food that you eat. Certain vegetables will cause more gas than others, and greasy food will cause it too. I actually read somewhere that if you are "gassy" that means you are healthy. I'm not sure how true that is, but it sounds good to me!! LOL
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You're tired and lethargic from being too hot and a little dehydrated. Probably a little sleepy and stiff from lying around too, if you're actually sunbathing.\n\nThe suns energy is electromagnetic radiation, that's not the same kind of energy your body runs on. Your body runs on chemical energy, that is, energy derived from breaking down chemicals.\n\nThe sun's energy comes from fusion reactions.\nA fusion reaction is when two atomic nuclei (the part in the middle of an atom) are joined into another heavier element.\n\nOur sun is a medium size main sequence star. Which means that it isn't too big, and that it's in the prime of it's life. It fuses hydrogen into helium for the most part. \n\nWhen a fusion reaction happens not all the mass of the two atoms from the beginning goes into the final single atom, the rest flies off as radiation. The radiation excites the atoms in the sun and they give off the electromagnetic radiation that we receive.
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Some planets are too hot for water, some are too cold. The larger planets are made from methane and other gases.
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How old are you? Ah, you have an age... ergo the sun revolves around the sun, ergo, gravity is attractive (though I think it could loose a few pounds), ergo there is your answer. If gravity weren't attractive (could have nicer eyes too) we would all be dead, and zero years old!\n\nThat's supposed to be funny\n\nOh well, physics humor, go figure... Hellooooooo Nurse!
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The Sun's diameter is 864,938 miles (1,391,980 km). This is almost 10 times larger than the planet Jupiter and about 109 times as big as the Earth. The volume of the Sun is 1,299,400 times bigger than the volume of the Earth; about 1,300,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun.\n\nAs compared to other stars, however, the Sun is about average; red giants like Betelgeuse are about 700 times bigger than our Sun (and roughly 50 times as massive). Betelgeuse is also about 14,000 times brighter than the Sun. Red supergiants dwarf the Sun. \n\nThe Sun's apparent size in our sky is 32 arc minutes (it is the biggest object in the sky - 1 arc minute larger than the moon).\n\nTHE MASS OF THE SUN\nThe Sun's mass is roughly 1.99 x 1030 kg. This is about 333,000 times the mass of the Earth. The Sun contains 99.8% of all of the mass of the Solar System. \nThe mass of the sun is decreasing over time, as fusion reactions convert hydrogen into helium, releasing huge amounts of energy in the process.
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because the sun's gravitational pull is much greater than the earth's...same reason the moon goes around the earth and not the other way around
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sorry but on earth our atmosphere acts like a lens (it magnifies)\nif in space, the sun itself would seem as a pale red star, if you could ask neil armstrong why the controversy, it would probably be because of what he saw ( or didnt see) that kept the hushh going. :)
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in actual fact the SUN is a star. The other STAR/STARS are not called sun because they are extremely far from us and have no quite any uses to us but the sun id use ful to us by providing heat. So i guess the people are trying to make the SUN a special star by giving it a different name.\nlol...
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It has been stated that the sun has a great deal of hydrogen within it due to the necessity of it being converted into helium, and the energy difference generating its heat potential.  There is a problem with this concept.  Although there is energy release in the conversion of hydrogen to helium, the interior of our sun is not what has been taught in your school.\n\nWere you to determine the acceleration value of a mass 400 miles from the very center of our sun, you would find that were a mass to be released in this location, it would accelerate to a speed greater than that of light in one second.  This means there is not a continual atomic furnace generating heat by the process of hydrogen to helium as taught.  Either there is a hollow area within our sun where mass cannot exist, or there is a new form of mass unknown to mankind.  Offhand I would reject the last.\n\nThe reason helium and/or oxygen could not burn within our sun is that the pressure surrounding the gases is too great.  Notice when you burn a piece of paper how the smoke spreads outward along with the heat energy.  Within the sun the heat energy is already beyond that of what we would experience on our planet.  There is nothing to change.