Walking on the Sun

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OK lets just go beyond the realms of reality a bit here... someone invents a spaceship and suit that can get a human to the sun without harm.

Now could a human walk on the sun, I mean is its surface like mud or stone or something, or if you tried to stand on it, you would fall straight through to the other side?

I suppose its like that planet that is just a ball of gas.. Jupiter? Could you walk on that, or would you just fall straight through it?

And how does gas stay in a circle in space anyway... I mean if I let gas out here it dosent turn into a circle and float around?
 
Are you also 12?

the surface of the sun is gas, you'll just fall through until the pressure is big enough to condense it to liquid, the more you go down the thicker it is.

Same with Jupiter, it's gas until you go down far enough until you hit a massive ocean of whatever
 
You could test your theory by walking on McDonalds Apple Pie filling which has scientifically been proven to be hotter than the Sun.
 
Please stop messing with the guy...

The sun is made of cheese, hence the colour. Of course the type of cheese varies depending on which 'layer' of the sun you are on, and also bits from lower levels can reach the surface much like magma can reach the surface on earth. That is why you have an array of bright colours from yellow, orange and red.

Anyway you can walk on cheese yes, but you'd sink a little bit due to the extreme mavity and the fact that cheese isn't as tough as rock.
 
wiki said:
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields.[11][12] It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2×1030 kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.[13] Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. The remainder (1.69%, which nonetheless equals 5,628 times the mass of Earth) consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon and iron, among others. The surface is composed of a thin layer of a granite-like rock substance.[14]
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[FnG]magnolia;22167235 said:
The sun is made from a granite-like rock substance so yes, you could quite happily walk on the sun if you could ever get there of course.
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Favourite answer of the week right there :D
 
[FnG]magnolia;22167235 said:
The sun is made from a granite-like rock substance so yes, you could quite happily walk on the sun if you could ever get there of course.
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Except the mavity would probably compress you into a granite like rock. :D
 
@ [FnG]magnolia

Originally Posted by wiki
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields.[11][12] It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2×1030 kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.[13] Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. The remainder (1.69%, which nonetheless equals 5,628 times the mass of Earth) consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon and iron, among others. The surface is composed of a thin layer of a granite-like rock substance.[14]
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Did you add that last bit yourself? ;)

Originally Posted by wiki
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields.[11][12] It has a diameter of about 1,392,000 km, about 109 times that of Earth, and its mass (about 2×1030 kilograms, 330,000 times that of Earth) accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.[13] Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun's mass consists of hydrogen, while the rest is mostly helium. The remainder (1.69%, which nonetheless equals 5,628 times the mass of Earth) consists of heavier elements, including oxygen, carbon, neon and iron, among others.[14]
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The Sun
 
robgmun said:
Same with Jupiter, it's gas until you go down far enough until you hit a massive ocean of whatever
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It's not so much 'gas' as 'plasma', and we don't actually know what Jupiter's made up of. We have a few reasonable guesses that there's some sort of rocky/molten core, but no evidence. That's hopefully something that Juno will help to clear up.
 
robgmun said:
Are you also 12?

the surface of the sun is gas, you'll just fall through until the pressure is big enough to condense it to liquid, the more you go down the thicker it is.

Same with Jupiter, it's gas until you go down far enough until you hit a massive ocean of whatever
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Was there not some data from SOHO suggesting a calcium ferrite layer beneath the photosphere (the visible surface of the sun)?

Or was that just garbage....:p
 
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The Sun is mostly Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen so it's easy to walk on.
There's a possibility of some silicon just under the surface.
;)
 
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