How can we make something hotter than the sun?

Question

It’s the sun, it’s literally a burning ball of gas providing energy to countless things millions of kilometers away… How can humans make something that is hotter than that? And how is lightning hotter than the sun?

Edit: just to clarify how is it TECHNOLOGICALLY possible? Like what do you have to do to make something hotter than the sun?

In: Physics

Answer 1

The surface of the Sun isn’t that hot, 5000˚K. Lots of plasma cutters are hotter. The Sun is much hotter at the core where fusion is taking place, but that heat has to go into all the other gas and making it hot enough to glow.