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OUR SUN

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The Sun is thestar closest to Earth. provides the light, heat, and energy for life. people worshipped the Sun as a life-giving god. total energy output is enormous. is a rather ordinary star - not particularly big or small, not particularly

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is the source of heat controls our climate and weather. is the most studied star. thestarat the center of theSolar System. is almost perfectlysphericaland consists of hotplasmainterwoven withmagnetic fields. Sun is aG-type main sequence star comprising about 99.8632% of the total mass of theSolar System

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Chemically, about three quarters of the Sun's mass consists ofhydrogen, while the rest is mostlyhelium. The rest of it (1.69%, 5,628 times the mass of Earth) consists of heavier elements, including oxygen,carbon ,neon,iron, and others.

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CHARACTERISTICS OUR OF SUN

ze The Sun is 1,390,000 km in diameter. That compares with 12,756 km for diameter of the Earth. In other
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 Rotation

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The Sun rotates on its axis in space, from west to east, as Earth does. Its rotation is approximately the same axis that most of the planets revolved around the Sun. Since the Sun is primarily very hot gas, the surface at the equator rotates once every 25.4 days. The rotation near the poles is around 36 days. Also the surface swirls in high and low pressure areas, similar to those that occur on Earth.
Temperature

Its temperature is extremely hot, with the surface being about 5000 C and the center core at 15,600,000 C.
Radiation

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Solar Flares

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Flares and coronal mass ejections

SOLAR FLARE

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it is a sudden, tremendous, explosive outburst of light, invisible radiation and material from the Sun one great solar flare may release as much energy as the whole world uses in 100,000 years. Flares are short-lived, typically lasting a few minutes. The largest last a few hours. it seems to be energized by strong local magnetic fields.

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CORONAL MASS EJECTION

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CORAL MASS EJECTION

It the most energetic of all solar eruptions. It may include prominences. Most ejections originate from active regions on Sun's surface, such as groupings ofsunspotsassociated with frequent flares It is a massive burst ofsolar wind.

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Solar wind

It is a plasma, or steam of energetic, electrically charged particles that flows out from the Sun at all times. It is much faster, thinner, and hotter than any wind on Earth. It comes mainly from coronal holes, region in the suns corona where gases are much less dense than elsewhere.

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Solar wind

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Parts of the sun

1. CORE is considered to extend from the center to about 0.2 to 0.25solar radius. It is the hottest part of the Sun and of theSolar System. It has a density of up to 150 g/cm (150 times the density of liquidwater) and a temperature of close to 15,000,000Kelvin(by contrast, the surface of the Sun is close to 6,000 Kelvin). The core is made of hot, dense gas in the plasmic state. The core, inside 0.24solar radius, generates 99% of the fusion power of the Sun.

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2. RADIATIVE ZONE From about 0.25 to about 0.7 solar radii, solar material is hot and dense enough thatthermal radiation . 3. CONVECTION ZONE is the range ofradiiin which energy is transported

4. PHOTOSPHERE is the region from which externally received light originates. 5. CHROMOSPHERE is the second of the three main layers in theSun's atmosphere and is roughly 2000-kilometers deep. It sits just above thephotosphereand just below the solar transition region. 6. CORONA is a type ofplasma of theSunor other celestial body, extending millions of kilometers into space, most easily seen during a totalsolar eclipse, but also observable in acoronagraph. The Latin root of the word corona meanscrown.

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7. SUNSPOTS are temporaryphenomenaon the photosphereof theSunthat appear visiblyas dark spots compared to surrounding regions. 8. GRANULES on thephotosphereof theSunare caused byconvection currents ofplasma within the Sun's convective zone. 9. PROMINENCE is a large, bright feature extending outward from theSun's surface, often in aloopshape. Prominences are anchored to the Sun's surface in thephotosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun's corona . While the corona consists of extremely

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Sun spot cycle

A daily count of the number of sunspots visible on theSun(theWolf numberor Zurich sunspot number) shows a periodic variation with maxima occuring (on average) every 11 years. During asolar sunspot minima, there may be no spots visible on theSunfor several days, and the number present during maxima varies with each cycle. The maxima of 1958 shows the highest sunspot activity on record.
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1645-1715 there were very few sunspots, even during the maxima. This is known as the Maunder Minimum, and

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Sunspot cycle

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Reflecting telescope

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Areflecting telescope(also called areflector) is an optical telescopewhich

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Refracting telescope

Arefractingorrefractor telescopeis a type of optical telescopethat

What are the importance of our SUN?

The Sun holds the nine planets in our Solar System. The Sun is our supply of daylight. The Sun is the main source of energy for earth. The sunrays helps us by providing Vitamin D which is essential for our skin. Some people are seen basking in the sunshine to get useful Vitamin D and get tanned as well. Sunlight also helps to stop the growth of bacteria, insects and thus prevent the spread of diseases like malaria, typhoid, etc . Sun helps the plants in preparing their food through its light by a process called as photosynthesis.

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Why do we need the SUN?

The Sun is the prime source of the energy that we get from the food that we eat.

What would happen if the SUN never existed?

the sun never existed, nothing in this If world could have existed either.

7 Things You Should Know About the Sun

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The sun is by far the largest object in the solar system.

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Our Sun is actually the closest star to Earth. Since its creation, the sun has used up about half of the hydrogen in its core. The Greeks named the sun Helios Ulysses was the first spacecraft to study our Sun's poles The sun's strong gravitational pull holds Earth and the other planets in place The sun is made up of distinctive areas.

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