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Layers of The Sun Chart Completed

The document describes the different layers of the Sun from the core to the outer layers. It includes the core, radiative zone, convective zone, photosphere, chromosphere, and corona. The core is the hottest interior layer where nuclear fusion occurs. Heat from the core radiates outward to the convective zone, where hot gases rise and cool gases sink in convection currents. The photosphere is the apparent surface that radiates light into space, while the chromosphere and corona are atmospheric layers that surround it.

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Layers of The Sun Chart Completed

The document describes the different layers of the Sun from the core to the outer layers. It includes the core, radiative zone, convective zone, photosphere, chromosphere, and corona. The core is the hottest interior layer where nuclear fusion occurs. Heat from the core radiates outward to the convective zone, where hot gases rise and cool gases sink in convection currents. The photosphere is the apparent surface that radiates light into space, while the chromosphere and corona are atmospheric layers that surround it.

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Layers of the Sun

Core Radiati Convect Photosph Chromosp Coron


ve
ion
ere
here
a
Zone
Zone
- Interior
Layer
- The
engine of a
Star
- Nuclear
Fusion
Occurs
Here
- Hottest
Interior
Layer

- Interior Layer

- Interior Layer

- Atmospheric Layer

- Atmospheric Layer

- Radiated Heat
from Core to
Convection
Zone

- Hot gas moves


UP through this
layer and cool gas
moves DOWN
(convection
current)

- Apparent surface of a
Star

- Tints the light from the


Photosphere like
Sunglasses

- SHELL made
of Hydrogen
above the
CORE

- Bubbling HOT
layer of
convective matter

- This is the layer of


the Sun (star) we see
- Light energy from
this layer radiates into
space

- Outer Layer of a Stars


atmosphere that is
orange/red

- Atmospheric
Layer
- Outer most
layer of a Star
(Sun)
- Hottest
Atmospheric
Layer
- Extends
millions of
kilometers
into space

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