Taking a Closer Look at the Sun

This study recorded the position of the Sun over the course of a day, on three different occasions each one month apart. Then compare how the daily motion of the Sun changes throughout the course of a year. To measure the course of the Sun a roofing nail is placed on a paper and the end of the shadow is recoded over the length of the day. Starting the recording at approximately 10am and ending around 6pm.

“The sun is the heart of our solar system” (NASA Solar System Exploration) which is located at the center of the solar system. The sun has a radius of 432,168.6 miles. You would need 1.3 million Earths to fill up the sun. But the sun is not the largest star there are several that are much larger. The sun is the closest star to Earth which is around 93 million miles. The sun is like a big ball of gas. “In terms of the number of atoms, it is made of 91.0% hydrogen and 8.9% helium.” (NASA Solar System Exploration). But if you measure by mass the sun is made up of “70.6% hydrogen and 27.4% helium.” (NASA Solar System Exploration). Gravitational attraction which is made by pressure and temperature in the core holds together the sun. There is three main layers in the sun which are the core, the radiative zone, and the convective zone. Inside the core temperatures can reach 27 million degrees Fahrenheit

The sun is a star that is made up of hydrogen gas. The sun is unlike other stars that we see in the sky because the sun delivers energy and radiation that allows to living things to exist. Also, the sun is much closer than the other stars in the sky.

At some point in the future when the hydrogen runs out, at that point the star will start to collapse itself under its own weight. It get denser, hotter until the point where it starts to use the helium atoms themselves as the fuel for the fusion. As the star begins to fuse helium, it creates more energy and that causes the outer layers of the star to start to expand. One day our sun will grow so large that it will swallow up the inner planets of our solar system. It will become a red giant, for the sun this will be the beginning of the end. Then they explode and become a supernova or for some biggggggggggeeeeerrr stars it would be a hypernova, which is waaaayyy stronger than a supernova; supernovas are some of the most beautiful sights in the universe. Lucky for us, our sun is too small to even explode and become a supernova. These explosion of stars are so powerful that it can outshine the whole galaxy during its explosion. For the

It contains a large amount of ionised atomic hydrogen (H II) which is lit by the ultraviolet light of young, hot, blue stars.

The surface of the sun is worlds away. But on that surface, immense storms rage across the surface. These storms hurtle gusts of charged solar particles across the abyss of space. If the Earth happens to be in the path of the particles, the particles collide with molecules and atoms in the Earth's atmosphere. These atoms become stimulated by the sun's particles and light up. But what happens to cause the atoms to light up is where things start to get interesting.

Faulkner calls out racial prejudice and social circumstances with his story, That Evening Sun. The story follows an African American woman, Nancy, who is employed by a white family. The father is a very influential character in the story. Nancy washes the family’s laundry and cooks for them while their main chef is sick. Nancy is pregnant which causes her partner, Jesus, to get very angry and vow revenge against the man who raped her. He leaves town and Nancy lives in fear of Jesus coming back to kill her. She tries to hide in her employer’s house, much to the mother’s protest. Eventually, her luck runs out and the father leaves her alone for Jesus to find after she lures his children to her house for protection. The last time she is seen is in her house waiting for Jesus to kill her. The father is someone who seems to care for Nancy’s wellbeing. He walks her home and lets her sleep in the house for a couple of days, but he seems to be almost emotionless. He takes his job as father and employer seriously. Epictetus and Bernard Russell would argue that the father is an ideal person that is living a good life based on their works. Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness talks about living objectively and finding external sources to keep a person’s purpose fulfilled. Epictetus’s handbook describes a person who is calm and accepts things as they come, a person who observes and does not react to the events happening around him. Both works have things in common and outline the father as an ideal man who fits into these categories.

the mass of the hydrogen is converted into energy. This is where fusion in the Sun happens. Every second, 600 million tons of hydrogen are being converted into helium. This reaction releases a tremendous amount of heat and energy. this reaction began 4.57 billion years ago, and it has been generating energy this way every since.The radiant energy corresponds to a range of wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum, of which visible light is only a small portion. The Sun shines by turning hydrogen into helium in its core. Stars have a roughly constant magnitude, colour and temperature during their

The temperature of the star has to be very high in order for the star to begin the process of nucleosynthesis, the process where the nuclei of lighter elements fuse together to form different nuclei, releasing energy in the process. A star can have a lifespan of millions, billions, or even trillions of years, depending on the mass of the star. Stars with a low to average mass, like our Sun, will burn longer than stars with a very large mass, because the process of nucleosynthesis will speed up for stars with a larger mass, causing their lifespan to be shorter than that of a star with a lower mass. The process of nucleosynthesis takes hydrogen and burns it into heavier elements, such as helium, allowing new elements form. A star will remain a main sequence star most of its life, burning all of the hydrogen into helium, and burning the helium into heavier

The Sun was formed about 4.57 billion years ago from a giant molecular cloud, which consisted mostly of hydrogen and helium (highest in Photospheric composition). The formation of the Sun would have been triggered by a shock wave from a nearby supernova. The matter in the molecular cloud would then be compressed to cause certain regions to collapse. As a consequence a fragment of cloud would start to rotate due to the conservation of angular momentum and heat up with the increasing pressure.

Stars a balls of gas that are luminous meaning that they give off light. Star first start transition begins from clouds, a cold molecule of hydrogen that gravitationally collapse creating fragments into many pieces that slowly form in to individual stars. Stars are then held by their own gravity and is made of 75% hydrogen and 25% helium two of the elements in the periodic table. Hydrogen has the symbol of H and is the lightest and also simplest element in the periodic. Helium had the symbol He and had the lowest boiling point compared to the other elements in the periodic table. As time eclipse stars converts elements of hydrogen to helium that is why the ratio of the sum is 70% hydrogen and 29% helium.

Though the sun’s corona lies several hundred thousand kilometers above the sun’s surface, the corona lies several hundred thousand kilometers above the sun’s surface, the corona has a temperature of at least 1 million Kelvin’s, about 200 times greater than that of the surface itself.

The sun is an incredibly dynamic ball of mass and energy at the center of our solar system. The source of the sun 's energy is nuclear fusion; where mass is converted into energy when protons (positively charged hydrogen atoms) smash together at incredible speeds at the center of the sun to form helium. Nuclear forces aren 't the only thing acting on the sun, electromagnetic forces also play a vital role in the sun 's dynamic behavior. Due to the unimaginably high kinetic energy of particles within the sun 's core, electrons are stripped of their atoms, leading to high amounts of charged particles. These charged particles are known as plasma, and they behave distinctly from other generic types

Yearning for the urge to see the sun as it moves around the earth and stops in Orlando, thi would be the first time I get to see the sun shine its light on the dirt diamond and bring life to the blades of grass that lie in the shape of a quarter circle. The sun overcomes the gigantic trees, leaving the human eye to see the tiny drops of water on every perfectly cut dark green blade of grass; not a single blade out of place. The dull yellow along with the tangy orange light behind the soft grey clouds, slowly moving with the spin of the world, illuminate the diamond in such beauty and awe, too good not to capture. The diamond is amazing; the sun reflects the little specks of dirt as if they are glowing. Looking over the woven yellow fence, the clouds partially cover the sun and direct its rays through the gap in the trees; it looks as if the sun is trying to hide behind the trees, but keeps popping out like a little kid playing peek-a-boo. The sun that breaks through lets a white puff of smoke to appear every time my lungs let out air, they breathe in the fresh cold air, bringing new life to the body every time. The crisp air is blended into the smell of the sugary cake that was made the night before at the building less than sixty feet away from where I began my day, and as it sinks into my nose making the morning savory and sweet, I realize the day is going to be a new experience. Although the wonderment of the diamond is breathtaking the view does not last long, for the

The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium. So the sun is just one great big atom smashing, gas creating, nuclear furnace that gives off much appreciated energy. But this is not all that happens on the sun’s surface, some exciting stuff does happen up there every once in a while.