On September 6, the sun let its presence be felt by unleashing two massive solar flares. The first eruption, classified as an X2.2 flare, the strongest since 2008, occurred at 5:10 a.m. ET. Shortly after, at 8:02 a.m ET, the star spewed out a bigger, and more dramatic, X9.3 flare — the strongest on record since December 2006. Solar flares, or storms, beginning with an explosion usually above a sunspot, the area where strong magnetic fields poke through the sun's surface. When these spots become unstable, they erupt, releasing significant amounts of energy.…
Stars get much bigger than the sun. If it makes you feel any better, ours is a large yellow dwarf.” “I don't care, so long as it keeps doing what it does.” “It's a funny thing, but yellow dwarfs don't last as half as long as brown dwarfs. That's one reason why intelligent life is less likely to develop on planets orbiting stars like our sun.”…
Sunspots have been observed since the time of Galileo when he used the telescope to observe the sun. They are visible through a telescope as darkened spots on the sun caused by an area of extreme magnetic activity and dramatically lower temperatures (compared to the average temperature of the sun). The sunspots are approximately 2,000 degrees’ kelvin cooler than the photosphere which is why they appear darker against their hotter surroundings. The diameter of a sunspot varies from approximately 700km to over 7,000km and has a magnetic field of up to 0.4 tesla, which is extremely high. Sunspots are caused by locations of magnetic field disruptions inside the sun which prevent a lot of heat from reaching the surface, hence the cooler temperatures.…
Stars and Planets there is not much we know about them but here is what we do know. As a low-mass star dies it becomes a White Dwarf they are the color white because of the heat. The fate of our Sun is the same as a low-mass star first it will become a red giant, then it will become a white dwarf. When a High-mass star dies it’s called a Super nova. A super nova can cause a black hole or a neutron star.…
Solar Mama Film Review The film Solar Mamas is directed by Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim. It is about a woman’s journey to get an education to be able to turn her and her family’s life around along with her community. Rafea is a wife and mother that is from Jordan, she gets the opportunity to attend the Barefoot College in India that is training with other illiterate women to become solar energy engineers. She goes through some difficult struggles when trying to pursue her dream.…
A zone of perpetual churning, a place where light takes thousands of years to cross and the center of the sun is the core which is made of plasma. This plasma is radically hotter in the sun’s core than any normal plasma, because of this activity and how hot the core gets. We as ourselves why does the sun not blow up. It is because of the pressure pushing downward as the sun is pushing outward causes a balance which allows it to not blow…
Lust for Power Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the novel Shadow of the Wind once said, “Never trust anyone… especially those who you admire. These are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.” This is shown as a truth when, in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, O’Brien strives to assert power over Winston by securing his trust to break down Winston’s resistance against the Party. To being with, O’Brien drops subtle hints to Winston that he opposes the Party.…
From satellite images of the sun in space, it appears to be a great, red, fiery ball of energy. The reason why it appears to be so bright is because its intense power and radiation is produced by a process known as nuclear fusion,…
The sun has to go through many layers that filter some of the more harmful radiation that is emitted and allows the earth to provide an abundance…
The sun's precious energy is being drained by an army of UFO space vampires say some paranoid alien hunters. The swarms of Earth-sized spaceships are slowly killing the Earth and we are none the wiser. UFO BLOGGER WARNS US OF IMPENDING DOON UFO blogger Scott Waring has been warning those interested about energy sucking aliens stealing energy from the sun. This theory comes from world-famous alien unter Streetcap1. He reportedly saw a large, odd shaped space craft hovering just above the spitting fire of the sun.…
Solar power, simply put, is energy that comes from sunlight. Solar energy is used to power things such as streetlights, homes, or even smaller things such as calculators. Many people have switched to solar energy to power their home’s electrical appliances, as it is commonly believed that solar energy is better for the planet. While solar energy does provide us with energy without burning fossil fuels, there are also other effects on the planet. Before understanding how solar energy impacts the earth, one must understand how solar panels work in the first place.…
Our sun is classified as a dwarf star, and the biggest star is called Red Giants(sun facts) although the sun is not the largest it is still the biggest object in our solar system, so large that it can fit around one million earths inside(sun facts). “Over the course of human history the sun has been feared and worshipped”(sun facts). Was it because of its natural beauty? The sun is essential to life,it provides light, heat, and causes one of the most beautiful celestial events, the Aurora Borealis(sun facts).though the sun does not have a scientific name it does have many nicknames and what you might call classifications, including Sol, a GU star, and our Main star. Just like how we can't live without the sun, we can't live without the moon either.…
Solar Energy has had a complicated history in America, but it has been growing steadily throughout President Barack Obama 's tenure as president. During the Energy Crisis in the 1970s President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the White House, but within just a few years President Ronald Reagan removed them. Meanwhile, other countries like Germany, Japan, and Italy greatly expanded their solar industries, leading them to far surpass America 's. While solar has had a difficult history in the United States, but after years of setbacks, the Obama administration has been working harder to make solar energy a key part of America 's sustainability plan. Overall, President Obama 's pro-solar policies have helped the growth of the solar…
When it comes to the topic of investing the government 's money, one controversial issue has been whether or not we are spending it properly. On the one hand, some people will argue that the government should invest more money expanding oil and gas. While others contend developing wind and solar energy would be the smartest way to go. Mark Lewis argues that oil prices could stay so low that is no longer economic to bring in high cost new oil fields. But even if the oil price does rise, it will not be able to compete with a renewable such as solar and wind.…
Humanity needs to travel the stars for survival purposes because the Earth is more fragile than it appears. Additionally, human aggression could easily destroy the planet faster than the Sun 's rising temperatures could. Consequently it is theorised that the sun will eventually cause the extinction of all sentient life on earth the reasoning behind this is that the sun is getting hotter due to the fact that it is burning up more hydrogen than it can sustain which causes the sun to gain more heat this is seen often in stars of which our sun is one, it is theorised that the sun will wipe out sentient life in 1 – 3 billion years ' time. Furthermore, there is a significantly high chance that human aggression could wipe out humanity faster than a heatwave from the sun, this is evident in the rising aggression between America, Russia and North Korea all who have the power to destroy the Earth with the push of a…