1428 - Describe solar structure

Describe solar structure

Concepts

  • [PP1-1-8] Solar structure
    The nuclear fusion of Hydrogen into Helium occurs in central part of the Sun (“Core”). Outside, the energy transfer is dominated by radiative process (“Radiative zone”) then by convection (”Convective zone”). Solar radiation at the Top of the Earth Atmosphere comes from the outer layer of the sun, the photosphere, whose estimated (conventional) temperature is 6000-6300 K.