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Earth Science - The Sun

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This lecture explains how nuclear fusion generates the Sun’s energy and how that energy moves through its interior and atmosphere. It also introduces sunspots, prominences, solar flares, coronal mass ejections, the solar wind, and the solar thermostat.

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Introduction
Fusion
Protonproton chain
Photons
Hydrostatic Equilibrium
Radiative Zone
Photosphere
chromosphere
corona
solar wind
sunspots
prominences
solar flares
coronal mass ejections
solar thermostat
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