Like all stars, the Sun generates nuclear energy. In the Sun’s core, the temperature is so high that particles of gas cannot form completely. Instead, atomic nuclei and electrons travel around at very high speeds, moving so fast that if they collide, they join to form new particles. This process is called nuclear fusion, and it converts hydrogen into helium whilst also releasing vast amounts of energy. The Sun converts over four million tonnes of matter into energy every second.
The interior of the sun is a kind of thermonuclear bomb of fusing material, mainly of hydrogen atoms under extreme pressure and temperature controlled at a giant scale, because of its enormous amount of particles interacting at high energy, it generates an electromagnetic field that helps maintaining it for an extremely long time. In the Sun there are trillions of particles in constant rotation colliding, in constant fission and fusion, mainly using hydrogen ions to convert them in helium ions in a chain reaction. In the sun it can be identified different layers that vary in density, temperature, pressure and behavior: the “thermonuclear core”, the “radiative zone”, the “convection zone”, the “photosphere”, the “chromosphere” and “solar corona”. The plasma is transparent to its own radiation.
The “thermonuclear core” has a spherical shape due to the action of gravity on the particles compressing towards the center, with a radius of 170,000 km. which represents 10% of the Sun’s mass and 25% of its radius. It is 530,000 kilometers deep from its surface. The most central part of the core is already 60% helium, although here is generated 99% of the energy emitted by the sun (in form of highly energized shortwaves); none of the fusion products of the center have risen to the photosphere. At the core of the Sun’s gravity pulls all atoms to the center. Pressure is 340 billion atmospheres of Earth, thus generating a tremendous vibration and rubbing of particles so that the temperature reaches over 15 million ° C. Matter is in form of ultra-dense plasma (150 t/m3) on this layer.
Each particle in the core has its own rotation. By adding the emitted charges of all the particles as a gigantic electromagnetic field rotation product of the rotation in the center of the sun, that will seek to be fed back through the poles, but being so close together, will add each other to generate a huge electromagnetic field of plasma around the core. The “radiative zone” can include the core so that together it is credited a radius of 580,000 km, accounting for 80% of the radius of the sun. Without considering the core, this layer would be 410 000 km thick. There is great compression on this layer, which is a bit less dense (20 tons/m3 to 200 kg/m3), but the pressure and the energy from the core of energized atoms generates vibrations emanating short electromagnetic wavelengths that transport heat and light to the surface.
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