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BRIEF FACTS ABOUT THE SUN
Diameter: 1 392 000 kilometers (109 times the Earth)
Mean distance from Earth: 149.6 million kms
Mean surface temperature: 5500 degrees Celsius
Temperature in the core: 15.6 million degrees Celsius
Density in the core: 150 times the density of water
Luminosity: 3,86 * 1026 Watt
Luminosity: Radiates each second an amount of energy equivalent to the use of electrical energy in Norway in 600 million years!
Density in the core: 250 billion atmospheres
Atmosphere: Very low density. Three layers and extremely high temperatures in the outer layer
Chemical composition of the atmosphere: As the rest of the outer layers: 74 % hydrogen, 24 % helium
Rotation:From 25.4 days at the equator, up to 36 days at the poles
Age: Approximately 4.6 billion years
Mass: 1.989 * 1030 kg = 330 000 times the mass of the
Period of orbit around center of Milky way: 225 million years
More information about the Sun "The eight planets"
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Magnificent images, movies accompanied by majestic music. | |
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Separate tracks about the eclipses in Norway in 1954, Turkey in 2006, the Arctic in 2008 and China in 2009.
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The film describes what will happen, why and what it will look like from different locations in Norway, on the Moon and from the Sun.
More information (in Norwegian)
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bangirommet.no News from space in Norwegian |
| svalbard2015.no
describes the spectacular total solar eclipse taking place on Svalbard and the North Pole on March 20, 2015.
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Svalbard 2015
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