Our Spectacular Sun!!!!
A project by Darlanda Muhammad
The Sun An It's Layers
These are the suns main layers.
The Core
This is the center of the Sun where nuclear fusion occurs and this is where the Sun get's it's energy.
Radiative Zone
This is the region of tightly packed gas where energy moves as electromagnetic radiation. This zone is very dense and energy can take more than a hundred thousand years to move through it!
Convective Zone
This is the outermost layer of the sun. Hot gases rise from the bottom layer of the convection zone and cool as they reach the top. This forms loops.
Photosphere
This is the sun's surface.
Chromosphere
The chromosphere is the layer above the photosphere. It appears as a red glow around the sun and is almost transparent.
Corona
Which means crown is the outermost layer of gases that surround the sun. It is only seen during a solar eclipse.
Sunspots
dark spots that appear on the surface on the surface of the sun. They appear darker because they are cooler than the surrounding areas
Prominence
A prominence is a large, bright, gaseous feature extending outward from the Sun's surface, often in a loop shape. Prominences are anchored to the Sun's surface in the photosphere, and extend outwards into the Sun's corona.
This is a solar flare. A solar flare occurs when magnetic energy that has built up in the solar atmosphere is suddenly released. Radiation is emitted across virtually the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves at the long wavelength end, through optical emission to x-rays and gamma rays at the short wavelength end.
sometimes things disrupt and get through the magnetic field. These happen from solar flares and coronal mass ejections. When these occur, they can cause Aurora's to be seen on Earth. From space, the aurora is a crown of light that circles each of Earth’s poles.