Because the sun is an enormous sphere of hydrogen-helium plasma with a core that...

atomicnumber3 on May 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Average adult will spend 34 years of their life st...

Because the sun is an enormous sphere of hydrogen-helium plasma with a core that's undergoing fusion just due to gravity. Even indirect sunlight is still a very large amount of light and energy.

I don't mean to sound flippant, but I think sometimes people forget just how insanely energetic stars of all sizes are.

TremendousJudge on May 20, 2020 [–]

But GP's point was that a screen is much brighter than a sunlit surface. You can't both be right, or I'm missing something.