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Hank: The sun is not a giant fireball. Like, you often seen it drawn as a ball of flames, but there's no fire up there at all. What's actually going on is much cooler... hotter. You know what I mean.

The Sun is a giant ball of helium and hydrogen, but not in their gaseous forms. That hydrogen and helium are so hot that the atoms break apart and get turned into plasma. And the Sun's plasma is similar to fire but it's made differently, and it is *way* hotter.

In the core of the Sun, the nuclei of these atoms smoosh together and release light and heat energy in the process. And unlike starting a fire, there is no oxygen required to make the Sun's heat. Nothing is on fire. Nothing is burning. Just a plasma glow.

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