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How Hot Is the Sun?

We think the sun is pretty hot in summer when the thermometer goes up to 90 degrees in the shade or out. We begin to get sunburned long before it reaches that high. But right on the sun’s surface it is between 10,000 and 15,000 degrees hot. That is, of course, a degree of heat which we cannot conceive. How much hotter still it is on the inside of the sun we don’t as yet know. It must be awfully hot there.

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