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radiative layer
The Radiative Zone
radiative zone
Heat travels through the radiative layer of the sun from the core outwards in the form of photons. These photos are so energetic in this confined space that they don't take a straight path outwards, they bounce around inside the sun for hundreds of thousands of years before they finally reach the surface of the sun after which they take only eight minutes to travel the nintey-three million miles to us.
The radiation zone is the "middle part" of the interior of the Sun. It is adjacent to the core. In this zone, energy travels between the atoms as photons of gamma radiation. Above the radiative zone is the convective zone. Scientists estimate that core energy takes as long as 170,000 years to travel through the dense matter of the radiative zone.According to NASA, the Sun's radiative zone begins about 108,125 miles from the center of the Sun and ends about 302,750 miles from the center of the sun.In some stars, it is believed that the layering is reversed, with the inner layer convective and the outer layers radiative.
The Radiative Zone.
The Radiative Zone.
The Radiative Zone.
The Radiative Zone.
The Radiative Zone.
The Radiative Zone.
The Radiative Zone.
The Radiative Zone.
From the Sun's core, energy moves through the radiative zone, across the tachocline (transition layer) to the convective zone, and then to the outer convective zone with its visible granulation.
radiative layer
radiative layer.
The Radiative Zone