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When you are outside on a summer day and you feel hot, it is the sun's rays raining down on you. The sun is producing, thermal energy(Heat energy).

Unbelievable right? No,actually It's just logic. The sun is like a giant light bulb,when you touch a light bulb it is warm. Just like the sun, only a gazillion times hotter.

-Kara Loyd (age 11)

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