The Sun - Page 6
Questions
- How does looking at the sun damage your eye?
- What happens to the entropy of the sun and earth system when heat flows from sun to the earth? Will the heating energy increase or decrease during this process? Why?
- How are pictures of the sun taken? For example, how do devices such as the Hubble Telescope take pictures of solar flares?
- During the past 4.6 billion years, what is the closest another star has gotten to the sun?
- Does convection occur in the sun?
- How does light from the sun travel to earth?
- Why do sunspots appear dark in pictures of the Sun?
- How far away would Proxima Centauri be from the Sun?
- How would the sun have looked at the formation of the Galaxy?
- How can you determine the diameter of the sun?
- Does any Star (Including Sun) have Iron?
- Where is the sun located on any diagram of earth's orbit?
- In visible light sun spots show up darker than the solar disc because they are cooler. In X-ray UV images why do they show up as brighter? In these images does brighter mean cooler and darker mean hotter relative to the solar disc?
- How would you calculate the circumference of the sun in inches?
- How many earths can fit the diameter of the sun?
- How long does it take the earth to complete one revolution around the sun?
- How do scientists take pictures of the sun?
- Is the sun a dwarf star?
- Given the following information, what would the star's rotation speed be?
- What is the circumference of the Earth's orbit around the Sun?