STRUCTURE OF THE SUN
Just like an onion (or an ogre), the sun has layers. The picture below is NASA's illustration of these layers. Click on the picture to learn about what happens in each layer.
View the slideshow below to see the features of the sun that can effect our daily lives
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STUDYING THE SUN
People have been studying the sun since the beginning of civilization. Ancient cultures used to sacrifice human lives because they thought it would keep the sun burning!
Without a magnetic field, we would literally be cooked by the sun. See a Coronal Mass Ejection in action and how our magnetic field saves us every time (so far!) |
COOL LINKS
Trust me, if we could figure out how to produce energy like the sun does, we'd never have to worry about it again! Every second, 4 million TONS of matter is converted to energy. View the slide show below to find out how.
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Still confused about nuclear fusion? Check out the videos below... |
EARTH-SUN-MOON PATTERNS
Celestial motions cause predictable patterns in our skies. Check out the various phenomena from the movement of the earth and moon relative to the sun and other skies at this website