• Question: What is inside the sun to generate the gravitational pull?

    Asked by gnipper3000 to Ajay, Kate, Kuntal, Pip, Reka on 10 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Reka Nagy

      Reka Nagy answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      The sun is made of a lot of atoms, and all these atoms have mass. The more mass something has, the stronger gravitational field it can generate! This is why the planets can orbit around the sun, and why moons orbit around planets. Smaller things can orbit around larger things.

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