The Sun is made up of 70% hydrogen (H) and 28% helium (He) atoms.1 Other substances make up less than 2%. Six hundred million tons of hydrogen are converted into 596 million tons of helium in the Sun every second. The remaining 4 million tons is given off as heat and light energy. In that sense, the first thing that comes to mind when the Sun is mentioned is the letters H (hydrogen) and He (helium) that stand for the Sun. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sun is made up of 70% hydrogen (H) and 28% helium (He) atoms.1 Other substances make up less than 2%. Six hundred million tons of hydrogen are converted into 596 million tons of helium in the Sun every second. The remaining 4 million tons is given off as heat and light energy. In that sense, the first thing that comes to mind when the Sun is mentioned is the letters H (hydrogen) and He (helium) that stand for the Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[1345,7,14841],"class_list":["post-20567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-truth-seeker","tag-editors-choice","tag-featured","tag-hydrogen-and-helium"],"yoast_head":"\n