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What are sun spots?

Jul 22nd, 2008 | Category: Science

Sun spots are the parts on the solar surface which has temperature nearly 4500 K. this temperature is 1500 K less than the temperature of the surrounding photosphere. So these regions are somewhat cool then the other parts. These sun spots are 150 kilometers away from the earth or we can say 93 million [...]



Why do planets circle the sun?

Jul 22nd, 2008 | Category: Universe

The first and foremost reason for why all planets move around the sun is that sun has very strong gravitational force and makes the planets to move around it Just as the moon revolves around the earth because of earth’s gravitational force. So here again the question arises that if it is due to gravity [...]



Why is the sun yellow?

Jul 22nd, 2008 | Category: Universe

Sun is made up of gases mainly like hydrogen, helium and small amount of other elements like sulphur, magnesium, carbon, neon, iron, oxygen, nickel, chromium and calcium. Temperature on the surface of sun is approximately 5780K giving the sun white color but it often appears yellow to us when we look at the sun from [...]