What type energy is the sun?

Answer 1

This is a very oversimplified answer.

Ultimately, all of a sun's energy comes from gravity. Due to the shear mass of a star, the gravitational forces in the sun are so strong that, at the center of the sun, atoms are fused together in a process called nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion itself liberates a huge amount of thermal (heat)and electromagnetic (light) energy, and this energy both heats the sun, making it hotter, and escapes from the sun in the form of sunlight. The sun also discharges some of its particles at very high speed into near and far space, called solar flares and the solar wind.

So, to answer the question, the following types of energy are in the sun:

1. Gravitational potential energy;
2. Thermonuclear energy;
3. Thermal kinetic energy;
4. Light energy; and
5. Ballistic kinetic energy.