• Question: Is there life on the sun

    Asked by sammy1 to Ben, Clare, Ezzy, Mario, Sam on 15 Mar 2012. This question was also asked by lukej.
    • Photo: Sam Vinko

      Sam Vinko answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Extremely unlikely. The sun is an environment where the atoms are stripped bare and no molecules can form due to the high temperatures. So no chance for anything nearly as complicated as life to exist, there is just an ionized hot plasma.

    • Photo: Clare Burrage

      Clare Burrage answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Probably not. All the life that we know of needs liquid water to exist, and the temperatures in the Sun are way too hot for there to be any liquid water there.

    • Photo: Elizabeth Pearson

      Elizabeth Pearson answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      No as we know it. The proteins that make up all life that we would be vapourised at the temperatures on the surface of the sun.

      There are crazy theories about life that exists only as energy, but that’s usually the realm of science fiction.

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