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Sound Effect "Bell"

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Our star the sun is a big ball of gas
and it's 99 percent of our solar's systems mass

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It's an average star in our Milky Way
Warming the Earth every day

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What powers our Sun and makes it so bright?
Come on and tell me, what makes all that light?

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Hans Bethe long ago reached the conclusion
it changes Hydrogen to Helium by nuclear fusion. When fusion takes place

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light is created and it makes its way out (although rather belated)
through the Photosphere, that's the part that we see, the light comes out

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and shines on you and me.   Oooohhh.
About a million Earths could fit in the sun,

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but if you were there you wouldn't have much fun.
It's six thousand degrees at the photosphere

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and much hotter inside the solar atmosphere.  There are a few places where
it's not so hot, like at the center of a big sunspot.

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But heat is relative, it's still pretty warm
sitting on a sun spot would do you great harm.

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Galileo discovered sunspots.
What are those things, those funny dots?

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They're cooler parts, scientists feel,
caused by a stronger magnetic field.  The spots move around the

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the face of the Sun, proving to all...... solar rotation!
A strange kind of movement, to do a full roll,

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25 days in the middle, 36 at the poles.
What about flares?

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I've hard of them here.  They're like giant explosions in the Chromosphere.
The magnetic fields above those sunspots, reconnecting

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again after being in knots.  Above the Chromosphere
the Corona is placed, it's millions of degrees and reaches way into

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space.  It's very thin, but read my lips,
that's the part that you see in a solar eclipse.

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That's the end of our song about Mr. Sun.
We hope that you find that learning is fun,

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but never look at the Sun you could go blind,
just keep on enjoying that warm sunshine.