Question

fire needs oxygen to burn but in space there is no oxygen in space so why sun is burning in the space ?

Answer 1


The sun in space is burning due to fusion reactions taking place every millisecond which produces lot of heat energy and very high temperatures. Fusion reaction is a combination reaction of hydrogen atoms to form helium atom with the release of large amount of energy.

Answer 2

Sun is not burning but nuclear fission is going on and 7rays fall like infrared,UV,beta etc due to this waves emitting the temp. Of sun reaches very high