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Simon Green

May 2, 2026

DanHOST
10:49
It's a big one?
10:51
It is the second largest and it's the one with the biggest ring system.
10:55
It's the thing that kind of characterizes it.
10:58
The planet is a gas giant, so it's made of gases with a small core.
11:05
So it's not like the Earth where we have mostly solid gas.
11:09
and then a small atmosphere on the outside.
11:12
Saturn is gaseous and very, very high-density atmosphere a long way down inside.
DanHOST
11:31
How long would that take us?
DanHOST
11:53
So is, is the core the hottest part of the sun because that's where it's all bubbling away?
11:57
It is, yes.
11:58
And it's powered by converting hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, into helium.
12:05
So it's a nuclear reaction, but not like the ones we have in our nuclear reactors on the Earth, which break up big elements.
12:13
It's making use, building a bigger element from the smallest one, hydrogen.
12:18
So it's fusing hydrogen atoms together to make helium, and in that process, it releases a very large amount of energy, and that energy gradually escapes through the sun.
12:31
Uh, it takes probably a couple of hundred thousand years to get from the core to the outside, and then a further eight minutes to reach us.
DanHOST
13:43
We can't get close enough.

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