How has the inside of the Earth stayed as hot as the Sun's surface for billions of years?
- Written by Shichun Huang, Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
The slice you see cut out of the Earth reveals its core, depicted here in bright yellow.fhm/E+ via Getty Images
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