The Sun

The sun is one out of billions of stars in the universe. It is a huge ball of gas. The sun is the closest star to earth; it rotates once every 25-36 days. The sun is now middle aged! that means it"s now in the middle of its life. The sun was formed about more than # and a half billion years ago! and could still be shining for another five billion years before it dies. $ne million earths fit inside the sun. If you loo% directly in the sun you could damage your eyes &ermanently because the sun is so bright. The bigger the star gets! the hotter the tem&erature gets. ' bigger su&er giant star can be about #(( times bigger than our sun. The sun is tilted. The sun is made out of )2* hydrogen! +* helium; the rest is other low number gases. The sun is one of the most im&ortant life su&&orts to ,arth and everything on it. The sun gives off heat and light that the earth needs to survive. The sun is made u& of layers- a core! a surface and surrounding atmos&heric layers! The .orona! .hromos&here and the /hotos&here. The .orona is a ha0y layer of gas surrounding the sun; it is the sun"s atmos&here. The .orona is hotter than the surface of the sun. The surface of the sun is about 1(!((( 2ahrenheit! but the .orona is about millions of degrees 2ahrenheit so the .orona is about 2(( times hotter than the surface of the sun. It e3tends from every direction from the chromos&here. The .orona is the outermost atmos&heric layer. This is where the solar wind begins. This is where you can see towering masses of luminous gas called filaments or &rominences on the solar limb against the dar%ness of s&ace. The .hromos&here is the innermost atmos&heric layer! the middle layer of the sun. It"s li%e a blan%et of glowing gases surrounding the .hromos&here it is about 16!((%ilometers thic%. It is %nown as a thin electrified matter. It can get to about 36(!((( 2ahrenheit. 4ou cannot see this layer of the sun because of its very bright light it emits. 'bove the .hromos&here is the transition layer! where the tem&erature can get to about 6((( to over half a million degrees. The gases in this layer shine in ultraviolet and e3treme ultraviolet wavelengths. In the .hromos&here the rising heat causes hydrogen to give off the reddish light seen in the &rominences during a solar ecli&se.

The Sun

The center of the sun is called the core it can get about as hot as 3( million 2ahrenheit! energy is generated by nuclear reactions. The energy that has been generated and is stored in the cores diffuses outward by radiation into the ne3t layer; The /hotos&here is the surface of the sun. The tem&erature is about 1(!((( 2ahrenheit. The /hotos&here contains suns&ots and solar flares. The /hotos&here sends the light and heat to earth! but the outer edge seems to be less bright it"s a condition called 5limb dar%ening.6 $n this limb is where we can see suns&ots! are dar% blemishes on the sun"s surface. It is the most visible layer of the sun. 7ere is where gaseous layers change from being com&letely o&a8ue to a radiative condition to being trans&arent. There are a lot of things about the suns atmos&heres! what it"s made of! how it wor%s and what"s ha&&ening on the sun. There are some things about the sun that no one might figure out li%e how the innermost atmos&heric layer of the sun is colder than the outermost atmos&heric layers of the sun. That is my assignment about the sun.