The Sun provides us with light that nourishes the plants and organisms on earth and thus starting the food chain in with all living things are apart of; it goes without question that if the Sun was not there we wouldn't be here. ... Carrington and Richard Hodgson, were independently observing sunspots at the time, when they viewed a large flare in white light (4). ... GCR are not really rays but mainly energetic hydrogen ions spiraling around our Galaxy at speeds of over half the speed of light guided by interplanetary magnetic fields .. strong solar wind can intercept and slow GCR and ca...

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They cannot be seen because of the clouds of dust that block and absorb the light being given off by them. ... Two factors resist collapse of gas clouds according to Seeds "the speed of the hydrogen atom and the turbulence of the hydrogen atom"(Foundations of Astronomy 233). ... A star does mostly one thing in its lifetime, produces energy and light. ... Heat comes from the energy produced by the sun that is given off through light. ... Stellar life consists of a series of factor pairs: pressure-gravity, heat-light, energy-heat, and friction-pressure. ...

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Long ago, before our planet earth existed, our solar system was a spherical cloud of gas and dust, and as wide as a light year (9.5 trillion kilometers across). ... That is just what we can see, because we can only see and look so far, due to the limitation of light. ... If we sent out radio waves of communication, at the speed of light it would take roughly 2.3 million years to get there. ... And a trip from one galaxy billions of light years away to another galaxy could seem like going from town to town for humans. ...

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