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What is the energy of the sun?
The sun generates energy in its core in a process called nuclear fusion. During nuclear fusion, the sun’s extremely high pressure and hot temperature cause hydrogen atoms to come apart and their nuclei (the central cores of the atoms) to fuse or combine. Four hydrogen nuclei fuse to become one helium atom.
What is most of the sun made up of?
The sun is not a solid mass. It does not have easily identifiable boundaries like rocky planets like Earth. Instead, the sun is composed of layers made up almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.
How does the sun create energy?
The sun generates energy from a process called nuclear fusion. During nuclear fusion, the high pressure and temperature in the sun’s core cause nuclei to separate from their electrons. Hydrogen nuclei fuse to form one helium atom. About half of the radiant energy is absorbed by land and oceans.
Is the sun’s energy heat?
The heat source for our planet is the sun. Energy from the sun is transferred through space and through the earth’s atmosphere to the earth’s surface. Since this energy warms the earth’s surface and atmosphere, some of it is or becomes heat energy.
How energy from the sun is passed to you?
Humans get energy from the sun by consuming foods that contain energy that was stored through the process of photosynthesis.
Is there gold in the sun?
Careful analysis of the Sun’s spectrum shows that about 6 ten-billionths (0.0000000006) of the mass of the Sun consists of atoms of gold. That’s a heap of gold! In fact, it’s about the same mass as one of the largest asteroids like Ceres – and Ceres is 913 kilometers in diameter.
How energy from the Sun is passed to you?
Which are sources of energy come indirectly from the Sun?
Direct and Indirect Forms of Energy. The world needs the energy to provide power for all the creation.
What is the fundamental source of energy within the Sun?
The source of the energy of the sun is gravitational collapse and compression of molecular dust from cosmic clouds or stardust, which consists of organic compounds including metals, and angular momentum.
What kind of Energy Fuels the Sun?
The source of the sun’s fuel is hydrogen and helium gases. Through a special chemical reaction, called nuclear fusion, the hydrogen gas is “burned” releasing an enormous amount of energy in the form of light and heat.
How does the energy from the Sun reaches the Earth?
The sun’s radiant energy reaches the earth’s surface either directly through radiation, indirectly through convection, or it can move “across” or “through” objects or materials on the surface via conduction.