Things on Earth being ‘As hot as the sun’

Question

I’ve heard a few times now in various scientific fields, mainly experiments, about things getting as hot as the sun.

How is this possible? Surely if you do something and you create heat that is that hot it would melt anything surrounding it?

Would love to know how this works 🙂

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Answer 1

Thanks everyone for some really great comments and feedback, there are some really great explanations here and it’s helped my understanding.

Ya’ll are all awesome :)!