Explained for children: How hot is the sun?
Spring is already bringing the first rays of sunshine and summer doesn’t feel far away. Nice that we finally get to feel the warmth of the sun again! Your child will certainly ask how hot the sun actually is. We have the answer here – and other interesting facts about the sun.
how hot is the sun “Very hot” is an understatement in answer to this question – and probably your curious sparrow will not be satisfied with that either. That’s why we not only tell you the exact temperature of the sun, but also other interesting facts about the center of our solar system.
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If there are no clouds in the sky and the sun is shining, we notice it immediately – it is noticeably warmer. But even if the temperatures here in Germany climb above 30 degrees Celsius in midsummer, that’s nothing compared to the warmth that the sun actually radiates.
Because Earth is 149,600,000 kilometers from the Sun, we don’t feel the full heat. Luckily! Because our home planet revolves around a center that is 15 million degrees Celsius inside, i.e. in the core of the sun. This number alone makes us sweat beads on our foreheads…
The sun is comparatively cool on the surface: temperatures there “only” reach up to 5,700 degrees Celsius. It is therefore colder on the surface of the sun than in the interior of the earth. According to scientists, the temperature of the earth’s core is 6,000 degrees Celsius. By the way: If a volcano erupts, the lava is up to 1,000 degrees Celsius hot.
More interesting facts about the sun
We now know how hot it can get in and on the sun. But there are other interesting facts about the center of the solar system that we don’t want to withhold from you:
- Even if several planets revolve around the sun, the sun itself is not a planet but a star.
- How many times does the earth fit into the sun? A total of 109 times! The sun has a diameter of 1.4 million kilometers.
- The sun is average in size compared to other stars. Stars in the sky look so small to us because they are much farther away from us than the sun.
- It takes eight minutes for the sun’s light to reach us.
- If we could walk to the sun, it would probably take us 4,000 years.
- The sun is already over 4.57 billion years old. She still has two thirds of her life ahead of her. Researchers agree that the total lifetime of the sun is 12.5 billion years.
