Slide 1Our Sun – Physical Properties Slide 2 Slide 3 109 Earths would fit across the diameter of the sun!! Diameter: 1,400,000 km, 864,000 miles 4.5 light-seconds 1,300,000…
1.Solar Exploration UCL DEPARTMENT OF SPACE AND CLIMATE PHYSICS MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY Santiago Vargas Domínguez,MSSL - Aug4, 20092. UCL DEPARTMENT OF SPACE AND…
1. The Solar System 2. Theories about theOrigin of the Solar System ThePlanetisimal Theory– proposed by CountGeorges Comte de Buffon . A passing star collided with our…
1. - is an average star, a sole source of light and heat in the solar system and huge glowing ball of hydrogen and helium gas. 4.5 billion years old now 2. Parts of the Sun…
1. Sunspots Solar Flares Prominence 2. SunspotsSunspots appear as dark spots on the surface of the Sun. Temperatures in the dark centers of sunspots drop to about 3700 K…
PowerPoint Presentation The Sun 1 Solar Prominence Sun Fact Sheet The Sun is a normal G2 star, one of more than 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Diameter: 1,390,000 km (Earth…
Lecture 4 The Formation and Evolution of CMEs Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) Appear as loop like features that breakup helmet streamers in the corona. Three part structure:…
Analysis of Hard X-Ray Footpoint Motion in Spectrally Distinct Solar Flares Casey Donoven Mentor Angela Des Jardins 2011 Solar REU 1 Overview Image the footpoints of solar…
Coronal Mass Ejection Also known as CME CMEs are huge bubbles of gas within magnetic field lines that are ejected from the Sun over the course of several hours Coronal Mass…
The Sun Chemical composition: - Hydrogen = 92.1% - Helium = 7.8% - Rest of the other 90 naturally occurring elements: 0.1% How does the sun produce energy? 1) Energy is created…