Yes. The sun is a giant fusion engine. It's primary work is fusing hydrogen into helium.
Later on in its life, it will fuse helium and heavier elements together until it reaches the end of its life fusing elements to create iron. Iron is the last fusion product created in stars in their "normal" lifetime. Heavier elements are created in nature only in supernovae.
A link is provided below. It's to the Wikipedia article on stellar nucleosynthesis, which is the "cookbook" for the operation of stars.
The sun (or any star) can be considered a giant gravitationally confined fusion reactor. However I sometimes like to think of them as giant ultra-high yield fusion bombs (the fireball is what we see directly, it does not rise forming a mushroom cloud as there is no air in space, and it lasts billions of years instead of minutes due to amount of fuel).
No, currently the sun is burning hydrogen and producing helium. Later in its life, when the hydrogen supplies are running out, the sun will start burning helium, and turning it into even heavier things.
No. See the related question on the sun fusing hydrogen to make helium.
Ding, ding, ding! Within stars, hydrogen is fused together to make helium.
The Sun is approximately 73.5 % hydrogen and 25% helium.
False. It is other way around.
Helium is formed by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes in the sun.
Yes
The SUN does NOT BURN gas. It is a FUSION of hydrogen atoms into helium atoms.
The sun does not burn in the conventional sense, it is a fusion bomb confined by its own gravity. At the core of the sun, hydrogen plasma fuses to form the element helium, a and this fusion releases the energy which makes the sun hot. hydrogen, helium
All stars fuse hydrogen into helium - the slight difference in atomic weight between 4 hydrogen atoms and one helium atom, is given off as radiation.
The Sun does not burn like a fire, the process that goes on in the Sun (and almost all stars) is the fusion of Hydrogen into Helium and Helium to Lithium etc. There is a lot of Hydrogen in the Sun. It will take another 4 or 5 billion years for most of it to be converted into heavier elements.
Just like a fire is gradually cooling down,so the Sun is.Its hottest elements(hydrogen)become helium,which is COLDER
it is made of mostly hydrogen and helium
The SUN does NOT BURN gas. It is a FUSION of hydrogen atoms into helium atoms.
Helium was named after the sun Helios.
No. The hydrogen on the Sun does not burn; it fuses to make helium instead.
No. The Sun doesn't "burn" anything; it fuses hydrogen to create helium, and vast quantities of energy. Propane is what powers your gas barbecue. The Sun is powered by nuclear explosions.
The sun does not burn in the conventional sense, it is a fusion bomb confined by its own gravity. At the core of the sun, hydrogen plasma fuses to form the element helium, a and this fusion releases the energy which makes the sun hot. hydrogen, helium
The sun does burn in a way, but not in the way you are thinking of. Nuclear fusion occurs in the sun which means that the gravitational forces of such a massive body force hydrogen atoms together, to produce helium. Helium is less massive than hydrogen and the lost mass is converted to energy, E=mc^2. That energy is radiated out in the electromagnetic spectrum which is what reaches us on Earth. The sun is basically a big ball of burning plasma, so it does burn itself but the products of this 'burning' are then burned in turn. Hydrogen to helium to carbon at which out sun is not massive enough to have enough gravitational force to burn so that will cause our sun to die.
It derives its energy from nuclear fusion reactions that transform, in its nucleus, hydrogen into helium.
The sun has methane, Helium etc.... type of gaseous surface. Which will burn may be more than a billion years.
The sun generates energy by fusing hydrogen into helium. Eventually it will run out of hydrogen. However, this won't happen for several billion years.
In a sense. The sun produces energy by fusing hydrogen into helium in its core. In about 5 billion years that hydrogen will burn out. Over the following two billion years the sun will fuse helium in the core and hydrogen in a surrounding shell before shedding its outer remnants and leaving behind a degenerate remnant called a white dwarf.
helium does not burn, hydrogen will burn in air