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  1. How long until the sun cannot sustain human life on earth?

    The sun will last, at its current brightness for 9 billion more years. How long until the sun gets burned down to the point where it cannot sustain life on Earth anymore? Updated: I am more …

  2. How much lux does the Sun emit? - Physics Stack Exchange

    I want to know how much lux the sun emits on a bright day - I don't mean when one stares directly at the sun, but rather when one walks casually outside when the sun is shinning brightly. Now the

  3. astronomy - How big a coincidence is the Sun and Moon having …

    May 3, 2020 · It's consensus that the very similar apparent sizes of the Moon and the Sun as seen from Earth is a coincidence (as already answered in this site). This provides us with …

  4. Why does the Sun "shine brighter" some days? [duplicate]

    1) The sun seems brighter (more dazzling) if there is more scattering in the atmosphere. The sun would actually look very small to us in the sky if there were no atmosphere (it's the same …

  5. What is actually meant by 'sun set' and 'sun rise' times, when …

    Feb 15, 2017 · If this is the case, then when we read things like what time sun sets and rises on websites, books, calendars, other official times, et al… does that mean when we see for …

  6. Nuclear fission in the Sun - Physics Stack Exchange

    The Sun's energy comes primarily from fusion of light elements in its core. It is estimated that a very small fraction of mass of the Sun (~$10^{-12}$ times the abundance of hydrogen) is …

  7. sun - Why is sunlight spectrum continuous? - Physics Stack …

    The sun's spectrum is very complex, and indeed there are a lot of "lines"—both light and dark (emission and absorption)—amidst a sea of what looks to be continuous frequencies.

  8. What is the relationship between crescent moon and position of …

    Oct 1, 2021 · The crescent of the moon is almost straight up/down because the Sun is horizontal with us, and therefore also horizontal with an imagined observer standing on top of the Moon …

  9. What if the Sun became a black hole? - Physics Stack Exchange

    If the Sun became a black hole, but the mass remained the same as it is now, the Earth would orbit in the same manner that it currently does because of the reason that the mass does not …

  10. Why does the sun make me feel warm? - Physics Stack Exchange

    Aug 27, 2015 · The sun outputs about 1300 watts per square meter (W/m²) in space near the earth, which gets reduced to around 650 W/m² in the middle of the day after going through the …