Hi Samantha,
Yes there is water - but not liquid water (no oases on the Sun!)
it is steam, so _very_ hot water. Still, for the Sun that
is pretty cool - most parts of the Sun are so hot that any molecule (as
you may know, water is made up of an oxygen atom and two hydrogen
atoms, so it is a molecule) will come apart. However, in sunspots it is
cool enough (about 3800 K or about 6,400 degrees F) for gaseous forms
of water and a few other molecules, like carbon monoxide, to exist. We
can see lines cause by these molecules in spectra in the infra-red - a
color of light humans can't see with their eyes, but is out beyond red
in the rainbow.
Terry
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