What is Sun’s structure?

The Sun is like a giant layered cake, and each layer has its own special job.

Imagine you're baking a cake, and instead of just flour and sugar, you use super hot gases and energy. That's the Sun, it’s like a giant, burning cake in the sky!

• The core is the very center, where everything starts. It's super hot, like if your oven was on extra high. This is where the Sun gets its energy by combining tiny particles called hydrogen.

• The radiative zone is around the core, and it’s like a thick layer of warm syrup that slowly sends out the heat from the center.

• The convective zone is next, think of it as boiling soup. Hot gas rises up, cools down, then sinks back in, keeping things moving.

• The photosphere is what we see when we look at the Sun, like the top layer of the cake. It’s bright and gives off light that reaches us on Earth.

• The chromosphere and corona are like a fluffy topping, they're much hotter than you’d expect, and sometimes you can see them during a solar eclipse!