Structure of the Sun
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Structure of the SunQuestions
- What is the sun's atmosphere?
- What is the sun's atmosphere called?
- How does the sun atmosphere differ from its interior?
- How does the sun's atmosphere affect the planets?
- What is the sun's interior composed of?
- Which part of the Sun is hotter: interior or exterior?
- In what part of the sun's interior do nuclear reactions occur?
- How do astronomers study the sun's interior?
- How do we know about the sun interior?
- What are the sun's interior layers?
- What composition of the Sun, its relationship to other stars, and some effects of its radiation on Earth's weather?
- What are sunspots? What part of the sun are they located on?
- How are the Sun’s magnetic field and its activity cycle related?
- How big is the sun's magnetic field?
- How and why does the sun's magnetic field flip?
- How big is the sun's heliosphere?
- What is the sun's heliosphere?
- Where is the heliosphere located on a star?
- How is molecular data being used to study gasses present in the sun?
- Why doesn't the sun have solids or liquids?
- How does the arrangement of the particles in a liquid compare to that of a gas?
- What is the middle layer of the sun's atmosphere?
- Is it true that stars the size of the sun will never have a core hot enough to fuse carbon?
- Approximately how long does it take the photons released in nuclear reactions in the core of the sun to exit the sun?