The following funny song, author unknown, was apparently written in the 1950s to promote nuclear power. A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees. Without the light it gives. The sun is a star, that is, a luminous ball of concentrated gas in space. The sun is our nearest star , and in particular, is the star that our planet Earth orbits around, along with the other eight planets in our solar system.
Electrons orbit around the center, or nucleus, of atoms, just like the moon orbits the earth.
The nucleus is made up of neutrons and protons. The element hydrogen, the first element of the periodic table, is made up of a nucleus consisting of one proton and one neutron, and this nucleus has one electron orbiting around it. The element helium , the second element of the periodic table, has two protons and two neutrons in its nucleus, and two electrons orbiting around it. As the Sun ages, more and more hydrogen gets converted to helium. The Sun is about 93 million miles from Earth.