Have you ever wondered about the possibility of life in the rest of this big, twisted mass of nothing called the universe? Well wonder all you want, that's not what this article's all about. Just the beggining. So anyway, it all started with this big explosion-type thingy. That's what started it all. Now the people of Earth call it the "Big Bang", the people of Mars call it the "Big Nuclear Warhead in the Sky" , and the people of Rigel 6 call it the "Big Mistake". Skipping ahead quite a few years to the creation of our Solar System, we find a big spinning disk of dust and gas (no, not the kind you get from too many baked beans and peanuts on a long camping trip). Anyway, this big massive thingy in the middle of this huge disk of quickly spinning hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, neon, silicon, magnesium, etc... just all of the sudden ignites. The pressure just became too great for it so it got really mad and decided to commit suicide by lighting itself on fire. No, that's not right... Oh, yeah, the pressure and heat became to great for it not to ignite, boring but truthful. Eventually, all of the planets and other gunk that got thrown in here began to form. Now that you know how it formed, you must know what it's made of, mainly hydrogen and helium, and a tiny bit of everything else. But a tiny bit on the sun (Sol) is a huge amount anywhere else, so you can imagine how much hydrogen there is there, what was that, you can't, well, um...er....

Anywho.
Let's just say that it would take 333 thousand Earths to make up the sun.

Now let's discuss what comes out of the sun. Well, really hot stuff for one thing, but "technically" I mean. There's all kinds of radiation just pouring off of that big old thing. We can only see the "visible light" portion of that, which is why scientists came up with that name for it (no one said that they were creative). Other types of radiation that come off of the sun everyday include Gamma rays, X rays, Ultraviolet rays, Infrared rays, Microwaves, and Radio Waves. When lots of hot gases erupt from the surface of the sun and form a loop big enough for the Earth and a few of her friends to pass through easily, it's called a prominence.

What about these sunspots you always hear about, I mean, they aren't just your average pimples and zits. The sun actually spins faster at the equator than at the top and bottom(sorry, no technical terms for you there). It get's so twisted that little (extremely powerful) magnetic fields form there. The extremely high magnetism prevents the hot stuff from spurting out, so you get "cool" spots that are slightly darker than the rest of the sun. When I say cool I don't mean light jacket weather, I mean still hot enough to vaporize you in seconds, just it won't do that quite as quickly as anywhere else on the sun (though, I wouldn't suggest actually timing it).

Finally, I shall describe what keeps the sun shining. Two hydrogen atoms hit each other so hard that they become one and form a helium. So much energy comes off of this reaction that it will keep the sun "burning" for about five billion more years. Then the heliums will start fusing(becoming one) and so on untill the elements get too heavy to fuse. While the heliums fuse, the sun will get really really big, not like, twice it's size but more in the, huge-mega-kick-your-butt-and-swallow-Venus-whole kinda huge. Then it will shrink and be all teenie weenie for all of eternity. THE END
P.S.-I wouldn't worry about it too much, by the time this happens you will have surely remembered to turn off all major appliances in your household and not have to worry about the electric bill.