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The Sun (Phenomena (Sunspots (sunspot activity (The average sunspot cycle…

- - - - The reddish glow can only be seen before and after a total solar eclipse
- - - - The average sunspot cycle is about 11 years
      - Peaks in sunspot activity are called solar maximums
      - periods of low sunspot activity are called solar minimums
      - The pattern that the sunspots make as you track them through the sunspot cycle looks like a butterfly.
      - sunspots are more common toward the middle strip of the sun
    - - The rest of the solar surface around sunspots is about 6000 K
  - - - X-class flares can sometimes be powerful enough to affect Earth
  - - - These particles in the atmosphere can create auroras and cause magnetic storms when they leak into the Earth's atmosphere
      - These particles are electrons and protons from hydrogen, atomic nuclei like helium, also small amounts of atomic nuclei from things like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, neon, and magnesium
    - - The temperature in this area can reach up to 2.9 million ° Fahrenheit, much hotter compared to the fast wind area which can reach 1 million degrees fahrenheit.
  - - - These charged particles are known as plasma
        
        They collide with Earth's magnetic field and cause it to change shape
        
        The particles can enter the Earth's atmosphere, especially at the North and South poles of its magnetic field
        
        The particles can charge the satellite and then when the energy discharges it can send a bolt of electricity through the satellite
        
        The fastest moving particles are microscopic and can mess up the electronic chips in satellites
        
        The particle are charged so they mess with radio transmission
    - - CMEs are eruptions of plasma from the Sun's atmosphere into Space
        
        Intense radiation arrives 8 minutes later, can affect radio and satellite communications
        
        The CME material actually arrives 1-4 days after the eruption, can cause electrical power problems
      - CMEs happen when the magnetic field of the Sun stretches too far or too much.
- - - - Nuclear fusion is when hydrogen atoms join to form helium
        
        Nuclear fusion only happens under conditions of extremely high temperature and pressure
      - Nuclear fusion releases energy in the form of light and particles
      - when atom nuclei of low atomic number fuse
        
        creates a heavier nucleus
        
        releases energy
      - smashing together atoms of light
        
        produces energy
      - How the sun generates light and heat