What’s Really Inside The Sun?

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]If you dove into the sun, the first layer you'd hit is hot enough to make diamonds boil. If you're magically protected, you get through it in just about 400 km. Then you'd be in a boiling ocean of plasma where ionized gas rises and cools and sinks like a giant churning pot that gets up to 2 million°.

[00:00:16]If you kept going, you'd hit a zone so dense that light particles, photons, get trapped, bouncing around randomly like a ping-pong machine that takes 170,000 years for light to escape. Then finally, you've reached the core. The place where hydrogen atoms smash together to create helium, nuclear fusion. The result, 15 million° C.

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