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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.

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