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  • Sol Symbol Sol (The Sun)

    Also known as our sun. What can we say about that big bright object that dominates our day? We love it's warm glow and are fascinated buy it's motion accross our sky. How about:

    The Sun was originally a dark cloud of gas made up of mostly hydrogen and helium. All this stuff creates gravity and this gravity pulled it all together. When there was too much pressure from everything pulling together fusion began. Fusion is what creates the light and heat from the Sun. The Here are some of it's statistics:

    Size:
    Volume: 1.412×1018 km3
    Diameter: 1,390,000 km
    Mass:

    1.989 x 1030 kg

    Temperature: 5800 K (surface)
      15,600,000 K (core)
    Other Info
    Age: Approximately 4.5 billion years
    Composition: 70% Hydrogen, 28% Helium, 2% Everything Else

    What more can we say about our Star?

    The sun also has dark spots on it that are slightly cooler than the rest of the sun's surface. These are caused by variations in the sun's magnetic field which is incredibly powerful and twisted. It twists in loops that the burning fires folow out from the surface and burst out into space when the loops break (called solar storms). The activity of these spots and solar storms increases and decreases on a regular 11 year cycle called the Solar Cycle.

     

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    Sol is huge, hot and our sun. Usually it's too bright to take pictures of, but with the right equipment and filters you can take some cool images.

    SOHO - The Sun 1SOHO - The Sun 1 SOHO - The Sun 2SOHO - The Sun 2 SOHO - The Sun 3SOHO - The Sun 3 SOHO - The Sun 4SOHO - The Sun 4 SOHO - The Sun 5SOHO - The Sun 5 SOHO - The Sun 6SOHO - The Sun 6 SOHO - The Sun Activity 1 SOHO - The Sun Activity 1 SOHO - The Sun Activity 2SOHO - The Sun Activity 2 SOHO - The Sun Corona 1SOHO - The Sun Corona 1 SOHO - The Sun Corona 2SOHO - The Sun Corona 2 SOHO - The Sun Corona 3SOHO - The Sun Corona 3 SOHO - The Sun Corona 4SOHO - The Sun Corona 4 SOHO - The Sun FlareSOHO - The Sun Flare SOHO - The Sun TricolorSOHO - The Sun Tricolor STEREO - The Sun 1STEREO - The Sun 1 STEREO - The Sun 2STEREO - The Sun 2  

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