What's Inside the Sun? · S1 · E6

Aura and Daddy sit together on the back deck at sunset, watching the sun set over palm trees. Aura asks if she could ever visit the sun. Daddy explains gently that the sun is a star, ninety-three million miles away, with millions of degrees of heat. Aura looks at the sun through her tablet's camera, her face quiet with wonder. She whispers that the sun is just there, every day, just burning. Daddy watches her with a proud small smile.

Aura asked Daddy if she could ever visit the sun. The answer was bigger than she expected.

At sunset, Aura asked Daddy a question.
"Could I ever go visit the sun?"
Daddy thought for a moment. He smiled.
"Oh, Aura. Nobody has. Nobody could."
The sun, he told her, is a star. The only one close enough to feel. It is so far away that it would take a rocket many, many years to get even partway there. And it is so hot, so blazingly hot, that nothing could survive near it. Not a rocket. Not a person. Not even a metal robot.
"How hot is hot?" Aura asked.
"Millions of degrees," Daddy said.
Aura looked at the sun through Glow's screen. It was just a small bright circle on the screen. Quiet. Steady. Burning.
She didn't say "wow." She didn't gasp.
She just whispered, "It's just there. Every day. Just burning."
And Daddy whispered back, "Yeah. Just there."

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