Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) - Live

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on earth there'd be no life
Without the light it gives

We need its light
We need its heat
We need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
There'd be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot

It is so hot that everything on it is a gas
Iron, copper, aluminum, and many others

The sun is large

If the sun were hollow
A million earths could fit inside
And yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star

The sun is far away

About 93 million miles away
And that's why it looks so small

And even when it's out of sight
The sun shines night and day

The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's
Atomic energy

Scientists have found that the sun
Is a huge atom-smashing machine
The heat and light of the sun come
From the nuclear reactions of hydrogen
Carbon, nitrogen, and helium

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees