Can we make a sun?

It's Definitely Possible! As it turns out, we can have an artificial sun on Earth, but as you might expect, creating an artificial sun takes a bit more than conducting a small experiment with regular equipment in a typical laboratory.
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Is it possible to replicate the sun?

Replicating the conditions of the Sun on Earth is tricky. We need temperatures over 100 million degrees for fusion to occur – hotter than the Sun. We don't have something as big as Sun at our disposal, so gravity is no use, but scientists are getting close to creating those conditions artificially.
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Can we create a star on Earth?

It's not just possible -- it's already been done. If you think of a star as a nuclear fusion machine, mankind has duplicated the nature of stars on Earth. But this revelation has qualifiers. The examples of fusion here on Earth are on a small scale and last for just a few seconds at most.
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Who build the sun?

Formation. The Sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago in a giant, spinning cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula. As the nebula collapsed under its own gravity, it spun faster and flattened into a disk.
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How do we produce the sun?

Solar energy is created by nuclear fusion that takes place in the sun. Fusion occurs when protons of hydrogen atoms violently collide in the sun's core and fuse to create a helium atom. This process, known as a PP (proton-proton) chain reaction, emits an enormous amount of energy.
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Does the sun make a noise?

The Sun does indeed generate sound, in the form of pressure waves. These are produced by huge pockets of hot gas that rise from deep within the Sun, travelling at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour to eventually break through the solar surface.
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How much longer will the sun last?

So our Sun is about halfway through its life. But don't worry. It still has about 5,000,000,000—five billion—years to go. When those five billion years are up, the Sun will become a red giant.
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Who made Earth?

When the solar system settled into its current layout about 4.5 billion years ago, Earth formed when gravity pulled swirling gas and dust in to become the third planet from the Sun. Like its fellow terrestrial planets, Earth has a central core, a rocky mantle, and a solid crust.
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Is the sun burning?

Answer: The Sun does not "burn", like we think of logs in a fire or paper burning. The Sun glows because it is a very big ball of gas, and a process called nuclear fusion is taking place in its core.
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How was sun born?

The Sun and the planets formed together, 4.6 billion years ago, from a cloud of gas and dust called the solar nebula. A shock wave from a nearby supernova explosion probably initiated the collapse of the solar nebula. The Sun formed in the center, and the planets formed in a thin disk orbiting around it.
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Is fusion reaction possible on Earth?

Normally, fusion is not possible because the strongly repulsive electrostatic forces between the positively charged nuclei prevent them from getting close enough together to collide and for fusion to occur.
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Do we have cold fusion?

A group of scientists at well-known research labs (e.g, MIT, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and others) worked for several years to establish experimental protocols and measurement techniques in an effort to re-evaluate cold fusion to a high standard of scientific rigor. Their reported conclusion: no cold fusion.
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Can a star be created in a lab?

Now, a group of researchers at UT Austin hopes to open up a new way of studying space: by re-creating the stuff stars are made of in labs right here on Earth. Stars are made of plasma, a super-hot gas that can reach 3 million degrees.
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Can LED lights mimic sunlight?

Believe it or not, LED lights have a lot in common with sunlight. LEDs can mimic the hue and intensity of natural sunlight and help to maintain the human body's natural circadian rhythm. This is because LED components allow for finer adjustments of color, brightness and intensity.
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How much does CoeLux cost?

The technology could also be applied to the health industry, to help treat sufferers of seasonal affective disorder (SAD), for example. However, sunny skies anytime, anywhere come at a price. A CoeLux skylight unit costs $61,000, not including an installation tariff of $7,600.
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How do you make natural sun?

Add a fresh coat of glossy white to your walls, ceiling, trim, and floors (if possible) to help bounce the light you do have around the room, and invest in decor items with glossy or metallic finishes to give the impression you have more light in your home than you really do.
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How long will the 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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Will the sun destroy Earth?

By that point, all life on Earth will be extinct. Finally, the most probable fate of the planet is absorption by the Sun in about 7.5 billion years, after the star has entered the red giant phase and expanded beyond the planet's current orbit.
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What will happen 5 billion years from now?

According to NASA, the Sun will stop producing heat through nuclear fusion around 5 billion years from now, and its core will become unstable and shrink. The Sun will ultimately fade away and turn into a dying star. If the Sun bursts, all human and plant life on Earth will perish.
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When did God create Earth?

Among the Masoretic creation estimates or calculations for the date of creation only Archbishop Ussher's specific chronology dating the creation to 4004 BC became the most accepted and popular, mainly because this specific date was attached to the King James Bible.
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Who Named the Earth?

Just as the English language evolved from 'Anglo-Saxon' (English-German) with the migration of certain Germanic tribes from the continent to Britain in the fifth century A.D, the word 'Earth' came from the Anglo-Saxon word 'erda' and it's germanic equivalent 'erde' which means ground or soil.
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Can we live without the Sun?

All plants would die and, eventually, all animals that rely on plants for food — including humans — would die, too. While some inventive humans might be able to survive on a Sun-less Earth for several days, months, or even years, life without the Sun would eventually prove to be impossible to maintain on Earth.
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Is Earth older than the Sun?

The sun, at 4.6 billion years old, predates all the other bodies in our solar system. But it turns out that much of the water we swim in and drink here on Earth is even older.
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How many more years until the Earth explodes?

Our planet will eventually be consumed by our sun. About 7.6 billion years from now, the sun will reach its maximum size as a red giant: its surface will extend beyond Earth's current orbit by 20% and will shine 3,000 times brighter.
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