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The sun is a mass of incandescent gas |
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A gigantic nuclear furnace |
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Where hydrogen is built into helium |
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At a temperature of millions of degrees |
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Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not |
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A place where we could live |
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But here on Earth there'd be no life |
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Without the light it gives |
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We need its light |
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We need its heat |
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We need its energy |
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Without the sun, without a doubt |
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There'd be no you and me |
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The sun is a mass of incandescent gas |
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A gigantic nuclear furnace |
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Where hydrogen is built into helium |
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At a temperature of millions of degrees |
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The sun is hot |
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It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, |
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aluminum, and many others. |
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The sun is large |
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If the sun were hollow, a million Earths could fit inside. |
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And yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star. |
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The sun is far away |
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About 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small. |
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And even when it's out of sight |
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The sun shines night and day |
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The sun gives heat |
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The sun gives light |
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The sunlight that we see |
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The sunlight comes from our own sun's |
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Atomic energy |
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Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. |
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The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, |
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carbon, nitrogen, and helium. |
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The sun is a mass of incandescent gas |
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A gigantic nuclear furnace |
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Where hydrogen is built into helium |
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At a temperature of millions of degrees |
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