procrastination - sorta

Lyrics from the song "Why does the Sun Shine?" by They Might Be Giants
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The Sun is a mass
of incandescent gas
a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Where Hydrogen is built into Helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees.

Yo-Ho it's hot,
The sun is not
A place where we could live

But here on Earth,
there'd be no life
without the light it gives

We need its light
We need its heat
We need its energy

Without the sun,
Without a doubt
There'd be no you and me.

The Sun is a mass
of incandescent gas
a gigantic nuclear furnace
Where Hydrogen is built into Helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees.

The sun is hot - (It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: Iron, copper, aluminum, and many others!)
The sun is large - (If the sun were hollow, a million earths could fit inside; and yet the sun is only a middle sized star!)
The sun is far away - (About 93 million miles away! and that's why it looks so small!)

And even when it's out of sight,
the sun shines night and day.

The sun gives heat,
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see.

The sunlight comes
from our own Sun's
Atomic Energy

(Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom smashing machine! The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, and Helium)

The Sun is a mass
of incandescent gas
a gigantic nuclear furnace
Where Hydrogen is built into Helium
at a temperature of millions of degrees.
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Gotta love these guys...