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ELI5: If it were possible to fly a space craft into the sun without becoming a giant burnt marshmallow... would the ship crash on the surface, or pass through because it made of gas?

Was thinking about this the other day for some random reason. I know the sun is made of gas, but at its center is it still gas? How dense would it be? Just the sheer size of the star must effect the components it is made of in some ways, right?
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The outer layers of the sun are only about as dense as water, so if you could manage to build a ship that was capable of withstanding the heat, moving through that wouldn't be too much of a problem.  However, as you pressed further into the sun, it gets more dense, up to 150 grams per cubic centimeter in the center, which is almost 20 times denser than steel.

That being said, the core of the sun, while dense, is still made of gas (albeit in a plasmic state), so it might be possible to push through it.  It would be like trying to sail through super-dense, extremely hot Jell-O.