hey this is a basic question

first... see this pic

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0211/04soho/earth.jpg


then... my question is... what's inside the sun... is it solid or
liquid or gas or what....
and say for example i happened to drop under the surface of the sun...
how long would i last... and how long would i last in the center of
the sun itself....

(Mike Henley) wrote in sci.astro:

first... see this pic

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0211/04soho/earth.jpg

Yes sir.

then... my question is... what's inside the sun... is it solid or
liquid or gas or what....


The center of the Sun is still gaseous. Here's a page which describes it
in more detail.
http://fusedweb.pppl.gov/CPEP/Chart_...SunLayers.html


and say for example i happened to drop under the surface of the sun...
how long would i last... and how long would i last in the center of
the sun itself....

On the surface of the Sun you'd instantly die from the intense heat,
immense gravity and fierce radiation. You wouln't last a fraction of a
second.
In the core it's not much better. Pressure, radiation, heat... imagine
that a part of the core the size a grain of sand is hot enough to
_instantly_ incinerate a region of 250 kilometers here on Earth.

In an instant you would do as the Sun does: donating a lot of atoms to the
fusion process.

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"Mike Henley" wrote in message
om...
first... see this pic

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0211/04soho/earth.jpg


then... my question is... what's inside the sun... is it solid or
liquid or gas or what....

Gas, plasma. The Sun is a ball of gas, mostly hydrogen,
a little helium, and a pinch of everything else.

and say for example i happened to drop under the surface of the sun...
how long would i last... and how long would i last in the center of
the sun itself....

Assuming that you could survive the trip there, and you
dove in naked, I'd give you about a millisecond. Much
less at the core.

"Mike Henley" wrote in message
om...
first... see this pic

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0211/04soho/earth.jpg


then... my question is... what's inside the sun...

Lots and lots of ionized hydrogen.

is it solid or

No.

liquid or gas or what....

It is a plasma. An ionized gas.

and say for example i happened to drop under the surface of the sun...
how long would i last...

At the photosphere, which is what appears to be the "surface" of the sun,
the temperature is about 10,000 degrees F. You would boil and vaporize
in moments.

and how long would i last in the center of
the sun itself....

Nanoseconds, probably.

On 29 Oct 2003 09:11:07 -0800, (Mike Henley) wrote:

first... see this pic

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0211/04soho/earth.jpg


then... my question is... what's inside the sun... is it solid or
liquid or gas or what....
and say for example i happened to drop under the surface of the sun...
how long would i last... and how long would i last in the center of
the sun itself....

Forget about dropping under the surface. You'd never even get there
without vaporizing in the tremendously hot corona.

"I" == Igor writes:

I On 29 Oct 2003 09:11:07 -0800, (Mike Henley)
I wrote:
my question is... what's inside the sun... is it solid or
liquid or gas or what.... and say for example i happened to drop
under the surface of the sun... how long would i last... and how
long would i last in the center of the sun itself....

I Forget about dropping under the surface. You'd never even get
I there without vaporizing in the tremendously hot corona.

Careful. Hot does not necessarily mean efficient heat transfer. The
corona is hot, millions of degrees. However, it is also quite
rarefied. There are not that many particles in any given volume
within the corona. Thus, the heat transfer to an object within the
corona, from the corona itself, is not necessarily large.

Of course, that close to the Sun's photosphere, even if the corona
doesn't transfer much heat, the radiation from the photosphere is
still enough to vaporize a person.

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