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Is the sun or lightning hotter?

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Lightning can heat the surrounding air to about 6000 degrees Celsius, approximately the same temperature as the surface of the Sun. However the air cools down almost immediately.

Also the surface of the sun is the coldest part, the closer to the centre you get the hotter it is (and, mysteriously, the sun's atmosphere is much hotter than the surface too).

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Of course sun . Lightning is not more then that because sun is the most hottest thing in the universe.

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