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What is the difference between a rocky planet's core and the core of the sun?
What is the difference between a rocky planet's core and the Sun's core
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Compare the wiki solar core article with the wiki article on Earth's inner core.
Note temperature, density, size, and composition.
Note temperature, density, size, and composition.
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But other than that....Scott said:Note temperature, density, size, and composition.
You would be hard pressed to find materials that differ more. The Sun's core is a huge, hot, super dense region of plasma made up mostly of hydrogen and helium. The Earth's core is a much smaller region made mostly of relatively cool metals in a solid or liquid state.
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