Answer» Correct Answer - Option 1 : Hydrogen and Helium
The correct answer is Hydrogen and Helium. - Sun
- It holds 99.8 percent of the solar system's mass.
- The visible part of the sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 degrees Celsius), while temperatures in the core reach more than 27 million F (15 million C), driven by nuclear reactions.
- It is composed of layers made up almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.
- Hydrogen atoms are compressed and fuse together, creating helium. This process is called nuclear fusion.
- As the gases heat up, atoms break apart into charged particles, turning the gas into plasma.
- A very small percentage (1.69 percent) of the sun’s mass is made up of other gases and metals: iron, nickel, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, magnesium, carbon, etc.
- While Earth orbits the sun, the planet is simultaneously spinning on an imaginary line called an axis that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole.
- It takes Earth 23.934 hours to complete a rotation on its axis and 365.26 days to complete an orbit around the sun.
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