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Meet the Sun - A Solar System Learning Song - Learn About Astronomy / Outer Space - The Nirks

Visit us: https://www.thenirks.com It's time to Meet the Sun! A learning song all about our favorite star & center of our solar system. Whose the Star? The Sun! Have fun learning astronomy with The Nirks®! Please help us continue. Learn more: https://www.thenirks.com/donate ©Copyright February 2026 Goes to Eleven Media. All Rights Reserved. Lyrics Rising in the East You’ll see me on the horizon Shimmering light that brings life to the Earth A hot glowing ball of gas I’m a star 93 million miles away from Earth, that seems far It takes 8 whole minutes for you to see my light But don’t look directly at me or you could burn your eyes I’m made up of mostly Hydrogen and Helium A yellow Dwarf Star whose size is about medium I’m 4.6 billion years old that’s ancient to you But as a star, my life is only half-way through CHORUS I am the Sun The Center of your Solar System I am the one That brings light to everyone Did you know that I rotate very slow And my center rotates faster than my poles My equator region rotates about every 25 days But my poles each take 36 days to rotate I’m 865,000 miles wide As wide as 109 Earths placed side by side And when it comes to volume, I can hold a lot It would take over a million Earth’s to fill me up I’m a G2 V yellow dwarf main-sequence star That includes my spectral type and luminosity class for you all Though I’m not nearly the hottest type of star you’ll meet I’m hot enough that you could melt and boil diamonds on me CHORUS All around the Earth I am known in every culture I have so many names Because I bring life to the Earth I’m also called Sol, that’s where the word solar comes from Like in the term solar system Sol is the latin word for Sun This name is used by many including the ancient romans Many civilizations thought I was a God Like In Egyptian mythology my name was Ra I’m also called Helios – in Greek mythology Like heliocentric, heliosphere, The God of the sun, you see CHORUS I formed from a solar nebula, a spinning cloud of dust and gas That spun so fast it flattened out when its gravity made it collapse Most of the matter formed me from this circumstellar disk And as for the rest, the planets were born from this I make up over 99 percent of all of the solar system’s mass The gravitational pull is strong from this ball of gas So strong that I pull and hold on tight to all the planets Which causes them to all stay comfortably in my orbit Planets asteroids comets moons and more orbit me And I orbit the center of the Milky Way Galaxy I’m located in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms you see It’s called the Orion Spur that’s where you will find me I’m traveling through space at over 500,000 miles per hour Even at that speed one orbit round the galaxy feels like forever 230 million years it takes to complete one trip around the Milky Way This is sometimes called a Cosmic Year, they say CHORUS I may look just like a ball But there’s much more that you don’t see So much happening inside To create my energy I have many layers to tell you about Let’s start from my inside and work our way out My core is my center, the hottest part of me Reaching temperatures of around 28 million degrees Layer 2 is a little cooler called the radiative zone Where Photon particles move energy, a process called radiation The Tachocline layer is layer 3 Separating layers 2 and 4, its a border in between Convective Zone layer 4 is the boiling plasma is in me Bubbling outwards through the convection process transferring energy My surface is The Photosphere, that is layer 5 You see it from Earth as a great sphere of light The Chromosphere layer 6 thin and red where temperatures rise Layer 7 transitions from Chromosphere to the outside The Corona is layer 8 extending far out into space only visible during a solar eclipse and hotter than my surface My photosphere or surface isn’t solid like the ground It’s made up of boiling plasma all around I have millions of wild jets erupting from me all the time Called spicules, these eruptions cover this surface of mine I’m constantly emitting particles, these are called solar winds When these winds hit Earth’s atmosphere they cause auroras to begin I have sunspots on me, that come and go as they please These are cooler regions on my surface that look darker you see Other features of me that may interest you My solar flares the most powerful explosions in our solar system its true Energetic bursts of light triggered by magnetic energy release Often followed by coronal mass ejections or CME’s CHORUS My glow comes from a process called nuclear fusion I create huge amounts of energy converting hydrogen to helium Eventually I’ll finish converting these elements of mine When that day comes, I’ll be out of time As the end nears, I’ll expand into a red giant star I’ll engulf Mercury Venus and Earth, and almost reach Mars Then I’ll shed my outer layers creating nebula display And collapse into a white dwarf star until I fade away