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Sun tanning or tanning is the process whereby skin color is darkened or tanned. It is most often a result of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight or from artificial sources, such as a tanning lamp found in indoor tanning beds. People who deliberately tan their skin by exposure to the sun engage in a passive recreational activity ...
The ultraviolet index, or UV index, is an international standard measurement of the strength of the sunburn -producing ultraviolet (UV) radiation at a particular place and time. It is primarily used in daily and hourly forecasts aimed at the general public. The UV index is designed as an open-ended linear scale, directly proportional to the ...
Sunrise seen over the Atlantic Ocean through cirrus clouds on the Jersey Shore at Spring Lake, New Jersey, U.S. Sunrise (or sunup) is the moment when the upper rim of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning. [ 1 ] The term can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon.
Miller recommends choosing a fall sunscreen that’s a little thicker than what you might apply during the sweaty summer months. Zubritsky agrees. “With cooler weather, I recommend opting for a ...
Story and application. The wind attempts to strip the traveler of his cloak, illustrated by Milo Winter in a 1919 Aesop anthology. The Sun persuades the traveler to take off his cloak. The story concerns a competition between the North wind and the Sun to decide which is the stronger. The challenge was to make a passing traveler remove his cloak.
By astronomical convention, the four seasons are determined by the solstices (the two points in the Earth's orbit of the maximum tilt of the Earth's axis, toward the Sun or away from the Sun) and the equinoxes (the two points in the Earth's orbit where the Earth's tilted axis and an imaginary line drawn from the Earth to the Sun are exactly ...
The Sun orbits the Galactic Center at a distance of 24,000 to 28,000 light-years. From Earth, it is 1 astronomical unit (1.496 × 10 8 km) or about 8 light-minutes away. Its diameter is about 1,391,400 km (864,600 mi), 109 times that of Earth. Its mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth, making up about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar ...
The "Charlie's Angels" star married Madden in 2015. Diaz and the Good Charlotte member welcomed two children, Raddix and Cardinal, through a surrogate. "I love being a mother.