TheWorldBuilder
Planetary Scientist
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Why doesn’t the sun need to go to college?
Because it already has millions of degrees
For your delectation and amusement: depending on the exact balance of the likely nucleosynthetic fusion cycles between proton-proton and carbon-nitrogen-oxygen in the core, it's effective temperature is ≃16,100,000K ± 700,000K (16,099,727°C ± 700,000°C). The theoretical temperature of an ideal black body radiator which emits the same energy profile as the surface would be at ≃5,777·00K ± 6·00K (5,503·85°C ± 6·00°C).