BIO 70

Our sun burns at a temperature of 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit and due to its extreme high heat, the sun is actually boiling. Ancient civilizations first thought that the sun was powered by coal until the 1920s where the explanation where nuclear fusion happens in the core of the sun. The core of the sun burns at around 27 million degrees Fahrenheit and its density is 10x larger than that of lead and because of that it is in a plasma state. The energy from the sun travel to our planet through photons but before that, the photons first travel through the radiative zone and since the radiative zone is full of other photons trying to get out and does a random walk then it enters the convective zone and it only lasts there for a few days until it finally comes out to the surface and travels all the way to earth. The sun is 93 million light years away from our planet. Magnetism, like in our planet, is also present in the sun however the magnetism is different due to the differential rotation by plasma. These magnets cause coronal loops or magnetic flux ropes. These “ropes” have so much energy coiled around them. Sun spots are the comparatively darker in shade spots in the sun and they are plasma craters. These sun spots unleashes energy through solar flares and these solar flares can affect our planet and affect our power supply and communications. The chromosphere can also have solar tsunamis and quakes. There are also coronal mass ejections which can also affect our planet like solar flares.