We all know how pre-school kids draw the sun — a big yellow circle with a bunch of lines coming out of it.  That’s all right for little kids.  But we figure 30-year-olds know better.  Do they?  Here is how a bunch of 30-year-old kid artists draw the sun:

These images were lifted from various online news and weather sites.  Let’s consider them in turn, from left to right.

The first sun has an odd appearance.  Unlike our familiar sun, it is dark in the middle and illuminated from above… but by what?  Another, brighter sun perhaps?

The second sun is even odder.  Bright in the center, like our own Sun, but with a bright perimeter, as if it were being illuminated from behind.  The most remarkable part, though, is that this sun not only emits light but reflects it!  We can only wonder what heavenly body, somewhere off to the right, is creating that window-like reflection.  I know.  It is our tenth planet, Windows 10.

The third sun is your everyday cosmic water-balloon, complete with a weird air bubble.  But don’t pop it — those spiny rays could fly out and hurt you!

Our fourth sun, not to be outdone, casts a shadow!  I’m not sure what celestial plane this shadow is falling upon, but that doesn’t seem to bother this pre-school artist.  When you have photoshop, who needs physics?   Physics isn’t taught until high-school.  Photoshop can be mastered by kids.