Elon Musk & NASA’s JUST SHOCKED The Entire Space Industry With This Discovery!

Have you ever complained of the heat on a bright sunny day? Despite being 93 million miles away from the Sun and being protected by the ozone layer, many of us have felt the burning heat of the Sun at one time or the other!

There is, however, an object that is moving directly towards the Sun to kiss it! The Parker Probe is one tough guy as it is destined to melt away as it is heading to the Sun, where things get as hot as 5,500 degrees Celsius! However, before it dissolves into nothingness, the Parker Solar Probe mission, which Elon Musk as a proper nerd, is a great fan of, is already making mind- blowing discoveries and sending data back to us about this massive ball of fire at the center of our solar system!

What has the Parker Probe discovered about the Sun, and how does it affect you? Join us as we explore through the eye of Musk the insane NASA discovery on the Sun that changes everything!

The Sun is truly awe inspiring in every way! Due to its massive size, it basically holds everything together in our Solar System! Without it, the Earth would have flown out of orbit and gotten lost in one corner of the universe! How big is the Sun? Well, the Sun, which is a star, is the largest object in the solar system! It is nearly a perfect sphere with its equatorial diameter and its polar diameter differing by only 6.2 miles or 10 km.

The mean radius of the Sun is 432,450 miles or 696,000 kilometers, making its diameter about 864,938 miles or 1.392 million km! The Sun’s circumference is approximately 2,713,406 miles (4,366,813 km). To the proper perspective of all these numbers, you can line up 109 Earths across the face of the Sun! Or, if you could somehow hollow out the Sun, you can drop one million of our Earth inside the Sun! What about the mass? Unlike the Earth, the Sun does not have any solid parts, but it is very dense. Its mass has been estimated at 1.989 X 10 raised to the power of 30 kilograms! Compared to the Earth, the Sun is about 333,000 heavier!

But then, the Sun accounts for 99.8 percent of the weight of the entire solar system! This is despite that the Sun loses 1.5 million tons of materials every second to the solar wind! Remember solar wind because you will hear more about it in this video! The Sun’s size and mass are not the only impressive thing about this star! The Sun gives off so much heat that humans had to invent air conditioning to deal with the hot summer months, despite being tucked away more than 93 million miles!

In fact, next time the Sun makes you uncomfortable, remember that the sunray traveled for eight minutes before reaching the Earth! How hot is the Sun? The answers depend on where you are standing in the Sun! The surface of the Sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit or 5,500 degrees Celsius hot, while temperatures in the core reach more than 27 million Fahrenheit or 15 million Celsius!

According to NASA, to replicate or reproduce that amount of energy, you would need to explode 100 billion tons of dynamite every second! But how does the Sun produce this enormous amount of energy? The Sun has a vast supply of hydrogen, and the hydrogen atoms get compressed and fuse together, creating helium.

This process is called nuclear fusion. The nuclear fusion taking place at the core of the Sun produces enormous amounts of energy that radiates outward to the Sun’s surface, atmosphere, and beyond. From the center, energy moves to the radiative zone, where it bounces around for up to 1 million years before moving up to the convective zone, the upper layer of the Sun’s interior.

The temperature here drops below 3.5 million degrees Fahrenheit or 2 million degrees Celsius. Large bubbles of hot plasma form a soup of ionized atoms and move upward to the photosphere. There is one intriguing phenomenon about the movement of heat from the Sun’s core that defies logic. The Sun has three outermost layers, the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona, arranged in that order when you are coming from the core of the Sun.

The temperature in the photosphere is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit or 5,500 degrees Celsius. Next is the chromosphere, which is not as hot at 7,300 degrees Fahrenheit or 4,000 degrees Celsius. However, the corona can get very hot, with temperatures ranging from 1.7 million degrees Fahrenheit or 1 million degrees Celsius, to more than 17 million Fahrenheit or 10 million degrees Celsius!

If you had been following closely by now, you would be wondering why the corona, which is the outer layer and farther from the core, is hotter than the two other layers! Scientists would like to find out precisely what is responsible for this seeming anomaly and also discover the other secrets of our closest star! However, since you can’t send astronauts to the Sun, the next best thing is a probe! This is the idea of the Parker Solar Probe launched by NASA, and the probe has sent back a trove of information.

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