What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?
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What would happen if you were to bring a tiny piece of the Sun to Earth?Short answer: you die. Long answer: it depends which piece of the Sun.Like most of the matter in the universe, our Sun is neither solid, liquid or gas, but plasma.Plasma is when stuff is so hot that the nuclei and electrons can separate and flow around freely, which creates a goo like substance.So, you can imagine our Sun as an extremely big, spherical ocean of very hot goo.The deeper you, go the denser and weirder the goo becomes.So let's bring 3 samples (each the size of a house), to our lab here on Earth and see what happens.First sample: the chromosphere.The chromosphere is the atmosphere of the Sun, a layer of sparse gas up to 5,000 kilometers deep,that's covered in a fores...
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What would happen if you were to bring a tiny piece of the Sun to Earth?Short answer: you die. Long answer: it depends which piece of the Sun.Like most of the matter in the universe, our Sun is neither solid, liquid or gas, but plasma.Plasma is when stuff is so hot that the nuclei and electrons can separate and flow around freely, which creates a goo like substance.So, you can imagine our Sun as an extremely big, spherical ocean of very hot goo.The deeper you, go the denser and weirder the goo becomes.So let's bring 3 samples (each the size of a house), to our lab here on Earth and see what happens.First sample: the chromosphere.The chromosphere is the atmosphere of the Sun, a layer of sparse gas up to 5,000 kilometers deep,that's covered in a fores...
