Learn / Outward from here
The Sun
On the scale of light: 8 light minutes 19 seconds. 4 lessons, in the order to read them.
Start hereWhat the Sun isThe Sun is a star seen close up: a ball of glowing gas, layered like an onion, with a furnace in the middle.First look · How it works- How the Sun shinesThe Sun turns matter into light in its core. The light then takes many thousands of years to find its way out.First look · How it works
The active SunThe Sun has weather: dark spots, sudden flares and vast eruptions that follow an eleven-year rhythm and can reach the Earth.First look · How it works
The Sun's reach: the solar wind and the edgeThe Sun blows a thin wind past every planet. Far beyond Neptune the wind stops, and two spacecraft have crossed the place where it does.First look · How it works
Outline Still to be written here
- Space weather and the EarthWhat the Sun’s storms do to satellites, power grids and the aurora.