The sun is a star which controls a tremendous amount of our weather. Our improved technology can tell us that the average temperature for the surface of the sun is about 5,800 degrees Celsius. Science can also tell us that the center of the sun is about 15 million degrees Celsius. Sometimes when you look at pictures of the sun, you can see giant flames on the surface of the sun. Those flares are giant storms also known as Solar Flares. The sun has many brilliant features such as, more than 1 million Earth's could fit inside the sun.
Sometimes, we do not think about how lucky we are that the sun comes up every day. Because if the sun did not come up one day. You could classify that day as the end of planet Earth. Ponds would freeze, many people would die, oil, gasoline, and everything else would freeze until nothing was left of our world.
A natural masterpiece of the sun is called "auroras" which occur in the North and South poles of the Earth. Auroras occur during the night sky and they look like beautiful curtains with many colors. Auroras happen when tiny, charged particles from the sun collide with atoms from the Earth's atmosphere.
The sun gives out a type of rays called UV rays, or Ultraviolet rays. UV waves carry more energy than light waves, which is why they burn your skin, when the rays burn your skin, it is commonly known as sunburn.
