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The core temperature of the sun is on the order of 15 million degrees kelvin while its surface temperature is around 6000k. What are the main factors which determine the surface temperature of the...
It's consensus that the very similar apparent sizes of the Moon and the Sun as seen from Earth is a coincidence (as already answered in this site). This provides us with almost exact total solar
astronomy - How big a coincidence is the Sun and Moon having almost ...
The sun will last, at its current brightness for 9 billion more years. How long until the sun gets burned down to the point where it cannot sustain life on Earth anymore? Updated: I am more concer...
Do you want to know both how the Earth-sun distance is measured and how the speed of light is measured? Those are completely different things. As I asked before, separate threads, please.
I want to know how much lux the sun emits on a bright day - I don't mean when one stares directly at the sun, but rather when one walks casually outside when the sun is shinning brightly. Now the
Besides the moon, the sun has a tidal component for the earths oceans, and when that crashes into continents the energy absorbed comes from the potential energy of the sun-earth system. I am not sure how this compares to the distance loss due to the mass and energy radiation of the sun you mentioned.