The core of the
Sun is considered to extend from the center to about 0.2
solar radius. It is the hottest part of the
Solar System. It has a density of up to 150,000 kg/m³ (150 times the density of
water on Earth) and a temperature of close to 15,000,000 kelvins (by contrast, the surface of the Sun is close to 6,000 kelvins). Energy is produced by
exothermic thermonuclear reactions (nuclear fusion) that mainly convert
hydrogen into
helium. The core is the only location in the Sun that produces an appreciable amount of
heat via fusion: the rest of the star is heated by energy that is transferred outward from the core. All of the energy produced by fusion in the core must travel through many successive layers to the solar photosphere before it escapes into space as
sunlight or
kinetic energy of particles.
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