Sunday, May 4, 2014

stars - What does a sample of the Sun look like? Does it look like fire or gas?


Suppose that in the future a highly resistant spacecraft went to the Sun and collected three samples of the Sun: one from its surface, one from its core, and one midway.
The three samples were put into three high-tech jars which could preserve the samples perfectly (so the temperature, pressure, etc, of the three samples are not altered).
The three jars were then brought back to Earth, and exposed into a museum.


What would we see?
Would the three samples look almost identical to each other?
Would they look like some kind of fire/flames?
Or would they just look like some kind of boring gas?


Please provide pictures if you can.




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