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- astronomy - How big a coincidence is the Sun and Moon having almost . . .
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
- Why does the Sun shine brighter some days? [duplicate]
1) The sun seems brighter (more dazzling) if there is more scattering in the atmosphere The sun would actually look very small to us in the sky if there were no atmosphere (it's the same angular size as the moon) and most of the brightness seen in the direction of the sun is from small deflection rayleigh scattering
- Nuclear fission in the Sun - Physics Stack Exchange
The Sun's energy comes primarily from fusion of light elements in its core It is estimated that a very small fraction of mass of the Sun (~$10^{-12}$ times the abundance of hydrogen) is uranium (b
- How much lux does the Sun emit? - Physics Stack Exchange
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
- How long until the sun cannot sustain human life on earth?
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
- How is distance between sun and earth calculated?
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
- Why does the Sun always rise in the East? - Physics Stack Exchange
The Sun does not rise, it is the horizon that goes down You say that Sun rises in the East (with a certain degree of oscillations due to the tilt of the axis) just because the Earth spins from West to East The revolution affects the difference between sidereal time and solar time, and makes the solar day $\approx 4$ minutes longer If the Earth spinned in the opposite direction the Sun would
- How come the Suns gravity can hold distant planets in orbit, but . . .
First, we should speak of acceleration rather than force, because like I said earlier all objects at a given distance from the Sun experience different forces but the same acceleration You ask "how come the Sun is strong enough to keep the distant planets in orbit but I don't fall into it?"
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