How much hydrogen does the sun use in one day?

2 Answers

4 million tons is converted into energy,/oer second..

Explanation:

Sun consumes 600 million tons per second and produce 598 million tons per second helium.rest 4 million is converted into energy.
4x3600x 24 x 365.242 tons per day.

Nov 15, 2017

The sun consumes #5xx10^13T# of hydrogen in one day.

Think of how long it would take you to collect one #T# of hydrogen!

Explanation:

The amount of hydrogen the sun does use in one second is about 600 million tons of hydrogen. That's according to NASA.

Then in one day the sun would consume:

#(6xx10^8T)/cancel(sec)*3600cancel(sec)/cancel(hr)*24cancel(hr)/(day)=518400xx10^8T/(day)#

If we were to consider the Earth has a mass of #1.35 x 10^21# tons, then the sun would burn up the entire earth in 70,000 years. - NASA
So you can: "Live Long and Prosper." - Star Trek

There is more information on the sun here (but be prepared to spend a lot of time at this site):
https://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/qa_sun.html#consume