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  2. Sun - Wikipedia

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    The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies.

  3. Solar System - Wikipedia

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    The temperature, reaction rate, ... which spans much of the Solar System. Along with light, ... (−270 °F) at night to 420 °C (790 °F) ...

  4. Planetary equilibrium temperature - Wikipedia

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    [6] [18] The same process would be necessary when considering the surface temperature of the Moon, which has an equilibrium temperature of 271 K (−2 °C; 28 °F), [20] but can have temperatures of 373 K (100 °C; 212 °F) in the daytime and 100 K (−173 °C; −280 °F) at night. [21] Again, these temperature variations result from poor heat ...

  5. Photovoltaic effect - Wikipedia

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    The first demonstration of the photovoltaic effect, by Edmond Becquerel in 1839, used an electrochemical cell. He explained his discovery in Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, "the production of an electric current when two plates of platinum or gold immersed in an acid, neutral, or alkaline solution are exposed in an uneven way to solar radiation."

  6. Jupiter, ascending: See our solar system’s biggest planet at ...

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    Weather permitting, Jupiter will not only be brighter than most other stars and planets in the evening sky, but will also be visible all night long. Jupiter, ascending: See our solar system’s ...

  7. Solar core - Wikipedia

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    At 19% of the solar radius, near the edge of the core, temperatures are about 10 million kelvins and fusion power density is 6.9 W/m 3, which is about 2.5% of the maximum value at the solar center. The density here is about 40 g/cm 3, or about 27% of that at the center. [9] Some 91% of the solar energy is produced within this radius.

  8. Thermosphere - Wikipedia

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    The thermosphere (or the upper atmosphere) is the height region above 85 kilometres (53 mi), while the region between the tropopause and the mesopause is the middle atmosphere (stratosphere and mesosphere) where absorption of solar UV radiation generates the temperature maximum near an altitude of 45 kilometres (28 mi) and causes the ozone layer.

  9. Solar phenomena - Wikipedia

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    Space weather is the environmental condition within the Solar System, including the solar wind. It is studied especially surrounding the Earth, including conditions from the magnetosphere to the ionosphere and thermosphere. Space weather is distinct from terrestrial weather of the troposphere and stratosphere. The term was not used until the 1990s.