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Is the sun hotter than mercury?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

no Mercury is only hot from the suns intense heat and solar radiation. the sun is a young star and burns at over 200k degrees f and has massive sun blasts that stretch 100 earths out into space resulting from hydrogen atoms running into each other at massive speeds

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