What is the average temperature of the Sun?

What is the average temperature of the Sun?

5,778 K
Sun/Surface temperature

How hot is the Sun’s core in Fahrenheit?

about 27 million degrees Farenheit
Core: the temperature at the very center of the Sun is about 27 million degrees Farenheit (F).

Is a nuke hotter than the sun?

A primary form of energy from a nuclear explosion is thermal radiation. Temperatures of a nuclear explosion reach those in the interior of the sun, about 100,000,000° Celsius, and produce a brilliant fireball.

Which is hotter sun or lightning?

In fact, lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun).

What is the temperature of the Sun’s middle most layer?

The core is around 150 times as dense as water and has a blazing temperature of around 15 million degrees Celsius or 28 million degrees Fahrenheit. This is the layer of the Sun above the super dense core.

What temperature would the Earth be without the Sun?

And without sunlight, the Earth would get very, very cold. Earth’s surface temperature now averages about 57 degrees Fahrenheit, but by the end of the first week without the sun, the average surface temperature would be below the freezing point.

What temperature does the sun reach up to?

At the core of the sun, gravitational attraction produces immense pressure and temperature, which can reach more than 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius). Hydrogen atoms get compressed and fuse together, creating helium.

How does the sun affect the temperature?

When the sun’s rays strike Earth’s surface near the equator, the incoming solar radiation is more direct (nearly perpendicular or closer to a 90˚ angle). Therefore, the solar radiation is concentrated over a smaller surface area, causing warmer temperatures.

What’s hotter than the surface of the Sun?

The bolt of lightning is heaps hotter than the Sun. The surface of the Sun has a temperature of 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit or 6,000 Kelvin. Whereas a lightning bolt can reach a temperature of 53,540 degrees Fahrenheit or 30,000 Kelvin, which is 5 times hotter than the Sun!