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THE SUN

PHENOMENA ON THE SUNS SURFACE

Can last from 20 minutes to 3 hours

Are seen as bright flashes of light that develop suddenly.

Solar flares

Occur when gas and huge quantity of charged particles explode from the photosphere

Sudden eruption of intense

Can reach a temperature of about 5000 000C

Sunspots Prominences Huge, arching column of hot gas (about 10 000C) spewing about 60 000 km from

Some of them blast material from the Sun into space at speed ranging from 600 km/s to more than 1000 km/s

The dark areas of the photosphere which are cooler than the surrounding areas.

The temperature is about 4000C

Not permanent on the Sun, can appear and disapper over aperiod of several days, weeks or months.

STARS AND GALAXIES

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