We don't now what the sun is made of, really. There's a professor from Ohio State who posits that it's solid/metallic vs. a ball of gas or plasma. Sun being a "ball of gas" is just theoretical, and this professor, Dr. Robitaille, has poked so many holes in the theory that it looks like Swiss cheese.
But apart from what the sun is made of, the question / debate is how far is the sun from us and how large is it? If it's farther away, it would have to be larger, but if it's closer, it would be smaller.
Mainstream science attacks FE and Geocentrism for unproven theories ... and like to pretend that they have solid facts, but this "fact" that the sun is a ball or gas or plasma is nothing more than theory also, and this Dr. Robitaille has completely falsified their theory. That means it's back to the drawing board, and neither side has an advantage over the other on some things.
This is the same issue as the problem on the other thread. How do we explain the fact that the atmosphere gets thinner as we go up? This is an unanswered question ... BOTH for mainstream science and for FE/geocentrists. How can we have a pressurized atmosphere to being with adjacent to the alleged infinite vacuum of space?
But mainstream science have constantly presented their theory as if it were established fact. That's nonsense. Their cosmology is in deep crisis ... as Kaku admitted. Big Bang is all but dead, even though they've presented it as fact for decades now. If you believe in the recent Webb telescope, scientists in analyzing the images have found that they falsify Big Bang theory. IMO, the people generating those images messed up and got exposed.