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Nuclear fusion powers the Sun. What elemnts in the sun are fused together in the sun?
Hydrogen atoms fuse to form helium and energy.
What kinds of atoms are fusing or combining together inside the sun?
At the age the sun is now it is still fusing hydrogen into helium.
Is there a song that starts with when the sun and the moon do you know any?
Trevor Hall. When the Sun and the Moon collide.
What is the difference between nuclear fusion in the sun and nuclear fission in a power plant on earth?
Fusion and fission are opposing processes. In the sun, hydrogen atoms are fused together to form helium. On earth, the most commonly used element is uranium, which is split into smaller atoms.
What is the origin of the particles that collide with gases in earth's atmosphere?
Charged particles come from the sun, especially after sunspot activity and solar flares. They stream through space and are attracted to the magnetic poles of the earth. In the ionosphere they collide with oxygen and nitrogen atoms, which give out green, blue and red light. This light is known as the Aurora Borealis, or Aurora Australis, the Northern and Southern Lights.
What does the sun run on?
Hydrogen. The temperatures and pressures are big enough for these atoms to collide or fuse together to make helium. This "nuclear fusion" give of loads of energy.
When nuclei joins together such on the sun?
I think you mean nuclear fusion, the reaction that powers the sun.
What force holds the sun together?
The sun is just a huge ball of hydrogen and helium. The heat created on the sun is from billions of hydrogen atoms smelting together to helium atoms. All these atoms are held together by the gravity.
What happens when charged particles from the sun collide with atoms of the upper air near the poles?
Golf Wang. :)
Why can't heat travel from the sun by convection or conduction?
Because there are no atoms to collide with to transfer the heat energy from the sun, thus, there is no conduction. This is also the same reason that there are no convection currents in space; There are no atoms to collide with to transfer heat. Thus, the only possible way to transfer heat is by radiation.
The source of the sun energy is?
Nuclear fusion for example two hydrogen atoms collide to form a helium atom and energy
How was most of what you know about atoms discovered?
they were discovered when the sun was made. when atoms fuse together in the sun that creates solar flares and more gas in the sun
Do the charged particles emitted from the sun cause the Northern Lights?
Yes, charged particles from the sun collide with oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the earth's ionosphere to cause the Northern and Southern Lights.
Why is the amount of hydrogen in the sun decreasing?
The sun is fusing hydrogen atoms together, turning them into helium.
Where are the particles in the northern lights from?
Charged particles stream out from the sun after a sunstorm at supersonic speed. They collide with atoms of oxygen and nitrogen in our ionosphere to produce the colors.
What makes up helium?
Helium is an element, and, as such, is made up of no chemical 'compounds'. In a chemical sense, Helium can be said to comprise only of single helium atoms, but, on a sub-atomic level, it comprises, as do all other atoms, of protons, electrons and neutrons.
What is causing the green color in Yukon Aurora with Star Trails?
Green is given off when charged particles from the sun collide with atoms of oxygen in the earth's ionosphere.
