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

Because our sun is relatively small so far as stars go, and, generally speaking, the larger a star is, the hotter it burns. For instance, there’s a star in the Pistol Nebula of the Milky Way named the pistol star that’s 100 times the size of our sun and it’s about 10,000,000 times as bright.