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The sun, first and foremost, is a star. It is basically a massive sphere of plasma and gasses which burn via fission and fusion. The constant burning of the gasses is what creates energy in the form of light and heat. The sun is about 5 billion years old, and contains enough mass to continue burning for another 5 billion years! It makes up 99% of our solar system, the other 1% are planets, moons, and comets or asteroids. The sun is vastly important in many ways. For one thing, the sun gives our planet the heat it needs to sustain life. Our planet is at just the right distance from the sun so that its neither too hot or too cold. Either of those extremes would mean no life on earth. The suns energy also allows the process of photosynthesis to occur, which in turn, allows for the abundance of plant species on this planet to thrive. Plants and trees, aside from being beautiful, food-providing objects, help our atmosphere by turning poisonous gasses like carbon dioxide into oxygen. The sun, because of how massive it is, helps to deter objects like comets and asteroids from slamming into the earth via its intense gravitational pull. These are a few of the things that makes our sun important. Sadly, the sun that made the earth ideal for life will also one day be the earth's and man's ultimate destruction. For it, like everything else, will die someday. And when it goes, we will too.

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