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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
a science lesson brought to you by the genius' that are They Might Be Giants
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
a science lesson brought to you by the genius' that are They Might Be Giants
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...and a science lesson brought to us all by Eric Idle
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power
The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of a
Galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our Galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,
It's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side
It bulges in the middle,16,000 lightyears thick
But out by us it's just 3,000 lightyears wide
We're 30,000 lightyears from galactic central point,
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this
Amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Coz there's bugger all down here on Earth
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power
The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of a
Galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our Galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars,
It's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side
It bulges in the middle,16,000 lightyears thick
But out by us it's just 3,000 lightyears wide
We're 30,000 lightyears from galactic central point,
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this
Amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Coz there's bugger all down here on Earth
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antares
It's a bit big.
Does this mean we can splash out on loads more camera gear and it doesn't matter in the big scheme of the things?
It's a bit big.
Does this mean we can splash out on loads more camera gear and it doesn't matter in the big scheme of the things?
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Yeah already had an idea of the size but those other suns!!
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Holly cow, thats impressive eh. I love this stuff, really makes the mind boggle.
How about the opposite then..
An Atom, if drawn to scale,
Would have the central part (The Protons, neutrons, Quarks etc) measured 0.1mm on the page...
...but the electrons would be revolving around 10 kilometres away.
This actually means that most of an atom is space (Nothingness)
If you where to take all the atoms space out of a human body, we'd be nothing but a fly spec.
How about the opposite then..
An Atom, if drawn to scale,
Would have the central part (The Protons, neutrons, Quarks etc) measured 0.1mm on the page...
...but the electrons would be revolving around 10 kilometres away.
This actually means that most of an atom is space (Nothingness)
If you where to take all the atoms space out of a human body, we'd be nothing but a fly spec.
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Forbiddenbiker said:Holly cow, thats impressive eh. I love this stuff, really makes the mind boggle.
How about the opposite then..
An Atom, if drawn to scale,
Would have the central part (The Protons, neutrons, Quarks etc) measured 0.1mm on the page...
...but the electrons would be revolving around 10 kilometres away.
This actually means that most of an atom is space (Nothingness)
If you where to take all the atoms space out of a human body, we'd be nothing but a fly spec.
It's all relative, innit?
