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• Things About The Sun

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The Sun
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The sun is by far the longest object in the solar
system, the sun contains more than 99.8 total
mass of the solar system
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the sun is at present about 70 hydrogen and 28
helium by mass everything else is metal
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About the Sun

• Suns energy output is (3.831033) or
  28,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 lb ft per/
  second its produced by nuclear fusion
• Surface of the sun is called the photosphere, is
  at a temperature of about 5800K

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Solar Flare

• A flare is defined as a sudden, rapid and intense
  variation in brightness
• A solar flare occurs when magnetic energy that
  has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly
  released

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Solar Wind

• The solar wind streams off of the sun in all
  directions at speeds of about 400km/s (about 1
  million miles per hour)
• The source of the solar wind is the suns hot
  corona

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Corona

• The only time you can see the corona during a
  totoal solar eclips
• The layer of the sun is called the corna or the
  crown, its very thin

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Sun spots

• They look dark only by comparison with the
  surrounding regions
• Sun spots caused by complicated large,as much as
  50,000 km in diameter