• Question: What would happen if you put a light bulb right next to the sun?

    Asked by LS2008 to William, Karen, Jasmine, Chinna on 5 Nov 2018.
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      William answered on 5 Nov 2018:

      interesting question!

      I think it would melt as the suns surface is about 6000 degrees and glass melts at around 1500 degrees. Sure that close to the sun im sure it would be too bright to have the lights on anyway!!

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      Karen answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      That’s a cool question! The light in a light-bulb is made when the tungsten (the metal that you see when you look inside the bulb) gets hot, so I wonder if the light-bulb would get super bright for a fraction of a second? I guess everything would melt pretty quickly from the heat of the sun đŸ™‚ I noticed a previous I’m a Scientist researcher worked out that if you wanted light-bulbs to be as bright as the sun you would need 3.8 Ă— 10^24 light bulbs, which is enough light-bulbs to weigh ten times the weight of the Earth!

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