• Question: is it physically possible to get inside the sun

    Asked by Cheesers77 to Ciarán, Eoin, Lydia on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Ciarán O'Brien

      Ciarán O'Brien answered on 20 Nov 2014:


      I very much doubt it. The colossal heat and pressure involved would squish and vaporise any material we’ve designed so far. The inside of the sun is like nuclear bombs going off all the time, and we don’t have anything that can survive a single nuclear explosion, never mind thousands a second!

      There wouldn’t be much to see in there, anyway. You’d probably be blinded by the amount of light produced in the fusion reactions.

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