Interior Of The Sun

The atmosphere of the sun surrounds the interior and is transparent to visible light and is relatively low density.

Interior of the sun. This region is called the radiative zone. To understand how our sun works it helps to imagine that the inside of the sun is made up of different layers one inside the other. The core or the center of the sun is the region where the energy of the sun is produced.

Interior zones of the sun it is useful to divide the interior of the sun into three interior regions. Within it there are no large scale gas motions. This energy diffuses outward by radiation mostly gamma rays and x rays through the radiative zone and by convective fluid flows boiling motion through the convection zone the outermost 30.

In this video i will give the basic information of and explain the interior of the sun. Skip navigation sign in. We ll stop supporting this browser soon.

Energy is generated in the core the innermost 25. As we shall see this is because the composition of the sun is dominated by the light elements hydrogen and helium similar to the gas giant planets while that of the terrestrial planets is dominated by heavier metals and their compounds. Even on earth we know that the sun produces energy because we see sunlight and we feel hot on a summer day.

The sun s core energy is generated via thermonuclear reactions creating extreme temperatures deep within the sun s core. Well inside the sun the gas is so hot it is fully ionized electrons are all stripped from the atom nuclei so the atoms are poorly absorbing and the energy is carried by gamma rays that bounce their way off the free electrons.