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What's Inside The Sun?
We all know the sun as the huge ball of fire in the sky that keeps our planet from freezing and turning into a ball of ice, and keeps the Earth and the rest of the solar system in its place. But what gives the sun its mighty energy and heat power? And what is happening inside of it that keeps its fire burning? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe for more videos:https://www.youtube.com/c/InsaneCuriosity?sub_confirmation=1? Business Enquiries: Lorenzovareseaziendale@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And a question to those with a wild imagination, can we really slice up a piece of the Sun? And if we miraculously did, what will be the consequences on Earth and the effects on people and even the whole solar system? Will anything ever be the same?! These are some very big questions that we're gonna answer throughout today's video, and to get to them, we need to get to know the sun on a more basic level first. Let's get to it. Let us first start with knowing some basic information about the sun, like we said in a previous video (put link to your video about sun's history), the sun is a "G-type" yellow dwarf star which means it's relatively small in size in comparison with other stars and it's yellowish in colour with a temperature of 15 million degrees Celsius (27 million degrees Fahrenheit). The Sun has been around long before the Earth or any other planet, it was the first thing formed in the solar system, Scientists have estimated the age of the Sun to be around 4.5 billion years old. But where does the sun get its energy? What's inside it that's causing it to keep on burning? That happens due to a process called "nuclear fusion" uhh what? Let's take a step back and explain. The Sun (just like all stars) is made up of hot gases so hot in fact that it’s found in the fourth state of matter; the plasma, and like many other stars, these gases are hydrogen and helium in the case of the Sun. Now, in order for the Sun to sustain itself, it constantly fuses each 2 hydrogen atoms to produce a single helium atom, the fusion process produces energy which keeps the Sun burning. And this whole process is called "nuclear fusion" You might have heard of this process before, because it is the same process used in nuclear reactors here on Earth. Now, the sun is at its main sequence stage which means it will continue on fusing hydrogen into helium for another 4.5 billion years, and then it will go into another stage for 1 billion years and become a "red giant" burning and fusing helium into a higher element which is carbon. If you think that the sun is a piece of work by now, I don't blame you, but wait till you listen to this. The sun is so full of mysteries and unsolved phenomena, one of these is the sun’s corona (no not the Virus) the sun's corona is the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere. The corona’s mystery resides in its temperature! Let me explain, imagine you’re around a source of fire, and as you get closer to the fire, you feel the heat more, and as you move away, you feel the heat less. Well, that’s not quite what happens around the sun! Weird, right?! The outermost layer of the sun’s atmosphere; the corona is actually HOTTER than the surface of the sun. the sun’s surface has an overwhelming temperature of 5726.667 degrees Celsius (10,340 degrees Fahrenheit), while the atmosphere is well beyond 300 times hotter!!!! The reason behind this abnormal behaviour still puzzles scientists till today, but they have a couple of ideas as to why it happens. One of these ideas is what’s called “nanoflares” presented back in the year 2015, scientists believe that small explosions called nanoflares burst in the sun’s atmosphere in millions every second, and even though they are “nano” in solar terms, they produce an amount of energy equivalent to 10 megatons of hydrogen bom*! These explosions reach a temperature of up to 10 million Kelvins, and they cause the sun’s atmosphere to heat up like we see in the sun’s corona. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If You happen to see any content that is yours, and we didn't give credit in the right manner please let us know at: Lorenzovareseaziendale@gmail.com and we will correct it immediately" "Some of our visual content is under a Attribution-ShareAlike license. (https://ift.tt/1jttIpt) in it’s different versions such as 1.0, 2.0, 3,0 and 4.0 – permitting comercial sharing with attribution given in each picture accordingly in the video." Credits: Ron Miller Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/Esa Credits: Flickr #InsaneCuriosity #TheSun #TheSolarSystem
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