does the sun have a solid surface
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- Click on image for larger version. The photosphere is the visible surface of the Sun that we are most familiar with. Since the Sun is a ball of gas, this is not a solid surface but is actually a layer about 100 km thick (very, very, thin compared to the 700,000 km radius of the Sun).ince the Sun is a ball of gas, this is not a solid surface but is actually a layer about 100 km thick (very, very, thin compared to the 700,000 km radius of the Sun).
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- The sun is made of Ionized gases mostly Hydrogen and about 25% helium. Light comes from the thermonuclear fusion that is achieved at the high temperatures in the core of the s … tar, at about 18 million degrees kelvin.ydrogen is the predominant element of the Sun, accounting for some 74% of its mass, and 92% of its volume. Helium accounts for 24% of its mass but only 7% of its volume.
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Describe features of the Sun that are always present. Why are they there all the time? The sun has a thin reddish layer of gas above the photosphere called the Chromosphere, and that is always present, although it take a total solar eclipse or a very special filter that lets through only the light of Hydrogen gas in order to see the chromosphere.
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- The sun is made of Ionized gases mostly Hydrogen and about 25% helium. Light comes from the thermonuclear fusion that is achieved at the high temperatures in the core of the s … tar, at about 18 million degrees kelvin. The sun is made out of gas-mostly hydrogen gas.   This gas is compressed into a ball (the sun is a huge 'ball' of gas) by the immense pull of the sun's gravity pull … ing it towards the centre of the sun.
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Geology of solar terrestrial planets Terrestrial planets are substantially different from the giant planets, which might not have solid surfaces and are composed mostly of some combination of hydrogen, helium, and water existing in various physical states.
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- The sun is mostly composed of the elements hydrogen (H) and helium (He). By mass the composition of the sun is 75 percent hydrogen and 25 percent helium. Various metals make up less than 0.1 percent of the mass of the sun. The temperature of the sun’s surface is about 10,340 degrees Fahrenheit (5,726 degrees Celsius).
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Does the Sun have a solid surface? Originally posted by SpittinCobra SOHO has demonstrated that the the sun has a solid, electrically conductive, ferrite surface, just below the observable photosphere which rotates uniformly every 27.3 days. The uniformity of this movement is unlike anything we find in the photosphere. It's rigid.OHO has demonstrated that the the sun has a solid, electrically conductive, ferrite surface, just below the observable photosphere which rotates uniformly every 27.3 days.
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The Sun Deep in the sun's core, nuclear fusion reactions convert hydrogen to helium, which generates energy. Particles of light called photons carry this energy through the sun's spherical shell, called the radiative zone, to the top layer of the solar interior, the convection zone.he sun's surface, or atmosphere, is divided into three regions: the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the solar corona. The photosphere is the visible surface of the sun and the lowest layer of the atmosphere.
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"The Photosphere - the ""Surface"" of the Sun" The photosphere is the visible surface of the Sun (left). Sunspots are often visible on the photosphere. A close-up view (right) shows the granulation pattern on the photosphere. Click on image for full size. Images courtesy of SOHO/NASA/ESA and The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Oddbjorn Engvold, Jun Elin Wiik, and Luc Rouppe van der Voort-University of Oslo.
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How the Sun Shines Since this would happen anywhere in space at the earth's distance from the sun, a huge spherical shell of ice centered on the sun and 300 million km (200 million miles) in diameter would be melted at the same time.
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- The Sun. The sun and its atmosphere consist of several zones or layers. From the inside out, the solar interior consists of: 1  the core (the central region where nuclear reactions consume hydrogen to form helium.2  These reactions release the energy that ultimately leaves the surface as visible light. ),he sun and its atmosphere consist of several zones or layers. From the inside out, the solar interior consists of:
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The Solar System The Sun is the largest object within the Solar System-it makes up more than 95% of all the matter! It is because of the Sun's large size that the rest of the objects within the Solar System orbit around it.The Sun is very, very hot.ol is the Roman name for Sun. The Sun is the largest object within the Solar System-it makes up more than 95% of all the matter! It is because of the Sun's large size that the rest of the objects within the Solar System orbit around it. The Sun is very, very hot. It is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit on its surface.
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What is the Surface of Saturn Like? by Fraser Cain on January 23, 2009. Saturn is a ball made up almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. The density and temperature changes the deeper into the planet you go, but Saturn can’t be said to have a solid surface. If you tried to walk on the surface of Saturn, you would fall into the planet, suffering higher temperatures and pressures until you were crushed inside the planet. Saturn captured by Voyager. Image credit: NASA/JPL. But Saturn appears to have a surface, so what are we looking at. The outer atmosphere of Saturn consists of 93% molecular hydrogen and the rest helium, with trace amounts of ammonia, acetylene, ethane, phosphine and methane.
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"The Photosphere - the ""Surface"" of the Sun" The Photosphere-the Surface of the Sun. Most of the energy we receive from the Sun is the visible (white) light emitted from the photosphere. The photosphere is one of the coolest regions of the Sun (6000 K), so only a small fraction (0.1%) of the gas is ionized (in the plasma state). The photosphere is the densest part of the solar atmosphere, but is still tenuous compared to Earth's atmosphere (0.01% of the mass density of air at sea level).
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- Jupiter is a gas planet so the surface is a gas which cannot have crevices. It's not known if it has a solid core.
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A Look Inside Our Nearest Star! The temperature patterns in the Sun are not well understood. The core has a very high temperature of more that 15 million degrees Kelvin. As you move away from the heat producing core the temperature drops to about 6000 degrees at the photosphere, the effective surface of the Sun.
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Earthâs Sun: Facts About the Sunâs Age, Size and History The photosphere is the lowest layer of the sun's atmosphere, and emits the light we see. It is about 300 miles (500 km) thick, although most of the light comes from its lowest third. Temperatures in the photosphere range from 11,000 F (6,125 C) at bottom to 7,460 F (4,125 C) at top.
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Stars and Planets Stars and Planets. Our Sun is a star. It’s a vast ball made up of 74% hydrogen and 24% helium, with trace amounts of other elements. It has so much mass that the temperatures and pressures at its core are hot enough to ignite fusion. At the core of the Sun (and other stars), atoms of hydrogen are being fused into atoms of helium. This process releases a tremendous amount of energy. If an object isn’t performing some kind of fusion at its core, it’s not a star. Most planets are actually made of similar material to the Sun.
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- How hot is the surface of the sun? About 6,000 degrees C 5,800k or roughly 10,000 deg F The surface temperature of the sun is about 5,780 K, which is 5,500 °C or about 9900 °F, while at the core it's some … thing on the order of 15 million °C or 27 million °F.
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- The sun is a big ball of gas and plasma. Most of the gas — 91 percent — is hydrogen. It is converted into energy in the sun's core. The energy moves outward through the interior layers, into the sun's atmosphere, and is released into the solar system as heat and light.
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- Best Answer: The sun has a visible disk called the photosphere, which is always present. The outer portions of that disk appear slightly darker than the middle of the disk. That is known as limb darkening and it is also always present.
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- rating newest oldest best answer the sun is a main sequence star the sun cannot be a planet because that would be impossible for a planet to have that much energy to shine upon something it is true that you see planets in the night sky such as venus but it has to reflect off of somethingsource s http en wikipedia org wiki sunhe sun a yellow dwarf is a star at the center of the solar system our planets are venus earth neptune mercury mars saturn uranus pluto and jupiter there are no other planets
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- No. Uranus is a gas giant and doesn't have a solid surface like the rocky bodies of the solar system, such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and many moons. It is theorised to have a solid iron core, but this wouldn't allow for volcanic activity.
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The Sun Sunlight as we know it-the visible white light, is emitted from the photosphere. The photosphere is one of the coolest regions of the Sun (about 6000 K), and it is here that we can see the granulation caused by the bubbling gas in the convection layer and the sunspots caused by strong magnetic fields.
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What Are the Surface Features of Uranus? What is the surface of Uranus like? Uranus also has lots of methane in its atmosphere, which helps make it one of the most visible planets to the naked eye. Since the planet has no solid surface, an object attempting to land on it would pass through the gaseous atmosphere and freeze on its way through the icy core.
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Stars and Planets Our Sun is a star. It’s a vast ball made up of 74% hydrogen and 24% helium, with trace amounts of other elements. It has so much mass that the temperatures and pressures at its core are hot enough to ignite fusion. At the core of the Sun (and other stars), atoms of hydrogen are being fused into atoms of helium.