Question

What is the name of the sun's surface layer?
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Answer 1

okay thank you.

Answer 2

wait are you sure it's not photosphere? i think it's photosphere...maybe....okay...

Answer 3

Photosphere is the visible surface of the sun.

Answer 4

yes okay. thank you vandreigan. so pselena is wrong right?

Answer 5

The chromosphere is a layer of the atmosphere of the sun. It's about 500km above the visible surface of the sun.

Answer 6

oh i see. thank you. would you mind helping me some more vocab?

Answer 7

What is the trapping of heat by the atmosphere?

Answer 8

@agent0smith

Answer 9

If you mean by the atmosphere of a planet, it's usually called "the greenhouse effect"

Answer 10

The surface of the Sun, called the photosphere. A small region known as the chromosphere lies above the photosphere.

Answer 11

Yeah, it's green house effect, thanks vandreigan, again.

Answer 12

What is a description of the solar system in which all the planets revolve around earth?

Answer 13

That's the model with the sun in the center.

Answer 14

Oh misread it as, around the Sun (lazy reading/assuming)

Answer 15

oh LOL :P

Answer 16

Earth-centric, Terra-centric? Something like that.

Answer 17

Geocentric?

Answer 18

^google agrees

Answer 19

LOL
okay
thanks!!!

Answer 20

Not a word we use often in astrophysics :P

Answer 21

LOL
What are reddish loops of gas that connect different parts of sunspot regions?

Answer 22

(hint 11 letters)

Answer 23

Solar Prominences

Answer 24

oh yeah. thanks.
What are areas of gas on the sun that are cooler than the gases around them?

Answer 25

Sun Spots are usually cooler than the surrounding gas. Likely what they want.

Answer 26

dang you good at solar system stuff. i can't even remember why jupiter is famous (great red spot.. oh hey i remembered! LOL X"D )

Answer 27

uh, it's 8 letters but one word for that last question...

Answer 28

Sunspots

Answer 29

oh wait really? oh

Answer 30

What is a stream of electrically charged particles sent out by the corona called?

Answer 31

Coronal Mass Ejection

Answer 32

first word has 5 letters, second word has 4...

Answer 33

Solar wind?

Answer 34

Hmm probably

Answer 35

uh really? or are you just guessing? never heard of that b4

Answer 36

It's a real thing, but it's hard to tell what they want. It's a rather vague question. The sun sends out lots of things in what could be described as "streams," but differ based on how it happens, and some other factors.

Answer 37

so it IS solar winds?

Answer 38

Well that would make sense, 5 then 4 letters. And that's what it is.

Answer 39

I can't think of anything else that fits that letter length for the words.

Answer 40

kk

Answer 41

What does heliocentric mean?

Answer 42

The sun is in the center.

Answer 43

THat the solar system revolves around the SUN right? I am right, right?

Answer 44

Yep

Answer 45

YES!

Answer 46

Explain what causes a meteoroid to become a meteorite.

Answer 47

Well, a meteoroid is a piece of rock, ice, etc. in space. If it hits Earth's atmosphere, it can create a visible "trail" called a "meteor." If part of the meteoroid actually survives the fall to Earth, it's called a meteorite.

So what causes a meteoroid to become a meteorite is it falling to Earth.

Answer 48

Oh. Describe these parts of a comet: head, nucleus, coma, tail.

Answer 49

I'm sorry, but I have to head to bed. You can google these questions, though. Just google "parts of a comet," and you can find your answer in the first few hits.

Good luck!

Answer 50

crap! this was my last questions~!!!

Answer 51

uh, are you still going to help me tho??

Answer 52

aww okay. bye. and THANKS SO MUCH