Can man go to the sun?

But the trip is long — the sun is 93 million miles (about 150 million kilometers) away — and we don't have the technology to safely get astronauts to the sun and back yet. And if we did, it'd be pretty hot. The sun's surface is about 6,000 Kelvin, which is 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit (5,726 degrees Celsius).
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Has any man been to the sun?

Outside mythology, no human has ever attempted to travel to the Sun. The main reason is fairly obvious—it's too hot. Even in a well-protected spacecraft, you could only get within about 2 million kilometres (1,300,000 mi) before burning up.
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What happens if a human goes to the sun?

Well first thing's first: You would disintegrate. At the temperature of the Sun, most of the molecules that make up our bodies could not even survive, that is why we would not only fry and die, we would really disintegrate (all the molecules breaking apart, leaving only loose atoms).
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Why can't Humans go to the sun?

Why is it so difficult? The answer lies in the same fact that keeps Earth from plunging into the Sun: Our planet is traveling very fast — about 67,000 miles per hour — almost entirely sideways relative to the Sun. The only way to get to the Sun is to cancel that sideways motion.
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Who was the first man to go to the sun?

Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and someone else. In the late 2020's NASA wants to send the first man to land on Mars. Why America always landing on moons and planets. What about South Africa.
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Can we live on the Sun?

The Sun could not harbor life as we know it because of its extreme temperatures and radiation. Yet life on Earth is only possible because of the Sun's light and energy.
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Can the Sun melt a person?

Of all the bodies in our solar system, the sun is probably the one we want to give the widest berth. It gushes radiation, and even though its surface is the coolest part of the star, it burns at about 9,940°F, hot enough to incinerate just about any material.
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Can anyone land on the Sun?

You can't stand on the surface of the Sun even if you could protect yourself. The Sun is a huge ball of heated gas with no solid surface. The Sun's surface is always moving. Sometimes storms bigger than the size of Earth can send gas and energy flowing into space.
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Can scientist reach the Sun?

Scientists announced yesterday that NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to "touch" the sun this past April when it reached the sun's upper atmosphere, known as the corona, Leah Crane reports for New Scientist.
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Who touched the Sun?

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Parker Solar Probe touched the Sun. The Parker Probe entered the Sun's upper atmosphere known as the corona where the temperature intensity is up to 2 million-degree Fahrenheit. This is the first time that a spacecraft has reached this close to the Sun.
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How much longer will Earth last?

The upshot: Earth has at least 1.5 billion years left to support life, the researchers report this month in Geophysical Research Letters. If humans last that long, Earth would be generally uncomfortable for them, but livable in some areas just below the polar regions, Wolf suggests.
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Has anyone gone close to sun?

Earlier this year, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew extremely close to the Sun. Its approach brought it within 15 million miles — far closer than the planet Mercury — from the Sun's surface, traveling at 213,200 miles per hour, which is the fastest any man-made spacecraft has ever traveled.
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Can you walk on sun?

But if you take a look around, there's nothing here for you to actually land on, because the sun doesn't have any solid surface to speak of. It's just a giant ball of hydrogen and helium gas. So instead of landing on the photosphere, you're going to sink into it.
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Can humans live on The moon?

Unlike the Apollo astronauts, lunar settlers wouldn't be able to carry all their rations and resources on their rocket. It would be too heavy. Instead, they would have to make much of what they would need to survive out of the extra-terrestrial resources to hand. Unfortunately, these resources are pretty barren.
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How cold is the moon?

The average temperature on the Moon (at the equator and mid latitudes) varies from -298 degrees Fahrenheit (-183 degrees Celsius), at night, to 224 degrees Fahrenheit (106 degrees Celsius) during the day.
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Can you touch a star?

Surprisingly, yes, for some of them. Small, old stars can be at room temperature ex: WISE 1828+2650, so you could touch the surface without getting burned. Any star you can see in the sky with the naked eye, however, would be hot enough to destroy your body instantaneously if you came anywhere near them.
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How close did NASA get to the sun?

The spacecraft got close to 5 million miles from the sun's surface on Feb. 25. Telescopes on Earth and in space had the sun safely in their sights when NASA's Parker Solar Probe made its 11th daring close flyby of the star on Feb. 25, all to understand more about the sun's behavior.
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What is inside the sun?

There are three main parts to the Sun's interior: the core, the radiative zone, and the convective zone. The core is at the center. It the hottest region, where the nuclear fusion reactions that power the Sun occur. Moving outward, next comes the radiative (or radiation) zone.
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What year will the Sun burn out?

But in about 5 billion years, the sun will run out of hydrogen. Our star is currently in the most stable phase of its life cycle and has been since the formation of our solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago.
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Can we survive the Sun's death?

In other words, it's extremely unlikely that life on any planet can survive the death of its sun — but new life could spring from the ashes of the old once that sun shrivels up and turns off its violent winds. So, the wind may be against us now, but one day it will be gone.
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Which planet has a life?

Among the stunning variety of worlds in our solar system, only Earth is known to host life.
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Is Earth the only planet with life?

Earth is the only planet in the universe known to possess life. The planet boasts several million described species, living in habitats ranging from the bottom of the deepest ocean to a few miles up into the atmosphere. Researchers think far more species remain that have yet to be described to science.
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