Solar Activity by Shelby Cooper https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83 en-us 2018-05-18 14:30:14 UTC 2025-11-15 01:47:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Brightnessdown.png The Sun sc8769 https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/261938493 2018-05-18 14:33:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/261938493 The suns layers sc8769 https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/261939310 2018-05-18 14:35:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/261939310 The Core sc8769 https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/261939940
  • The temperature of the core is 27 million degrees Fahrenheit
  • Most of the gas is formed into the energy in the core
  • Its formed by nuclear fusion
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  • https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hinode/solar_020.html (suns layers)
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sun_by_the_Atmospheric_Imaging_Assembly_of_NASA%27s_Solar_Dynamics_Observatory_-_20100819-02.jpg (the sun)
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Science_of_IRIS_mission.jpg (the core)
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_poster.svg (radiative and convective zone)
  • https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/15430820129 (sunspot)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun_in_February.jpg (photosphere)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosphere (chromosphere)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona (corona)
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Prominence_STEREO_Ahead.jpg (Prominence)
  • https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/12773667703 (flare) 
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_the_Sun_Caused_an_Aurora_This_Week_(14796311778).jpg (aurora)
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  • https://www.space.com/17170-what-is-the-sun-made-of.html (core)
  • https://www.windows2universe.org/sun/Solar_interior/Sun_layers/radiative_zone.html (radiative and convective zone)
  • https://www.space.com/17160-sun-atmosphere.html (photosphere, chromosphere, and corona) 
  • https://www.space.com/14736-sunspots-sun-spots-explained.html (sunspots)
  • http://www.dictionary.com/browse/prominence (prominence)
  • https://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/flare.htm (solar flare)
  • https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/definition/Aurora (aurora)
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  • Energy is generated by nuclear fusion in the core and pushed in the radiative zone by electromagnetic radiation
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  • Heat and energy are moved around in convection cells
  • Really hot stars may not have a convective zone
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  • About 300 miles thicc
  • This is where the suns energy is released in the form of light
  • It takes 8 minutes for the light to reach the Earth
    • ]]>     2018-05-18 15:51:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/261969517     Sunspots sc8769 https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/261995673 Dark spots on the photosphere. They are 3800 degrees K. They are caused by the sun's magnetic field.]]> 2018-05-18 17:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/261995673 Chromosphere sc8769 https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/262004871
  • It releases a red glow because of heated hydrogen
  • You can only see it during a total solar eclipse
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  • 300 times hotter than the photosphere
  • When the gases cool, it becomes solar wind
    • ]]>     2018-05-18 18:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/262013862     Prominence sc8769 https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/262015903 It's "an eruption of flamelike tongue of relatively cool, high-density gas" (A definition from Dictionary.com) ]]> 2018-05-18 18:06:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/262015903 Flare sc8769 https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/262062603 Sudden and intense build up caused of magnetic energy.]]> 2018-05-18 22:51:13 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/262062603 Aurora sc8769 https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/262067088 It is caused by electrically charged particles from the sun mixing with oxygen and nitrogen. Most well known from of an aurora is the Aurora Borealis.]]> 2018-05-19 00:18:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sc8769/25rpt3a97d83/wish/262067088