If Fire cannot exist in vacuum of space - How does the sun burn?

Nucular reactions.

Because it's just that awesome.

hmmm...
doesn't fire need oxygen to burn?

Not nuclear fusion

Easy, it's not fire. Fire is oxidation. The Sun is plasma produced by nuclear fusion.

You need oxygen. There's definitely hydrogen.

Now define "Nuclear fusion" please.......?

I wonder how well a vacuum cleaner would work in the vacuum of space.

Four hydrogen atoms, each composed of one proton, fuse. This produces a helium nucleus with two protons and two neutrons.

What happened to the electric charge of the two protons that became neutrons? It's lost as pure energy in the form of light (well, electromagnetic radiation), and also a free-roving particle called a neutrino.

Even in the center of the sun this requires a slightly improbable series of events which keeps the "burn" rate under control.

So remember to wear your sunscreen next time you're out. You're standing under a giant unshielded fusion reactor!

I'm wondering what you add to dehydrated water?

There are some ignorant fuckers out there today?

If idiots are not suppossed to be born why you are posting here ?

an idiotic question for an idiotic question
made by an idiot ...

By the way you were born an idiot because the sperm donor was Steven Hawkings !

because the SUN isn't in the vacuum of space... god, you are retarded

Thankyou! And yet that just leads me to wonder: How did 4 H atoms get fused?

haha, not exactly.. All stars float through the vacuum of space.

The simple answer to OP's question is that the Sun is not a fire.

Well it can't be in an oxygen environment.......cause then all the oxygen would then get burned up right?

lol

Ah, now we're getting somewhere........but when they show pictures of it up close, it looks like hot lava flowing and spiting doesn't it?

And I thought nuclear fusion was pretty much a constant. Then why the CMEs?? (coronal mass ejections)

They are random and fiery, no?

This picture clearly shows burning.

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It's called plasma... sheesh!

the sun isn't on fire, it's a thermonuclear explosion

I thought plasma looked more like this

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OP... i have a question for you... If fire cannot exist in the vacuum of space, How do we have fire on the earth? ........................................... The logic you are using is akin to the following............... If fish can't live outside of water, then do they breathe?

atmosphere contained within a gravitational pull?

I'm sorry everyone the OP has too good of a point. I guess the sun just doesn't really exist and someone just hung a really shiny decoration up there.