Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)

The sun is 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 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 still only a middle-sized star

The sun is far away

About 93,000,000 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 mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace

Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees