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The core of the Sun is considered to extend from the center to about 0.2 of the solar radius (139,000 km; 86,000 mi). [1] It is the hottest part of the Sun and of the Solar System. It has a density of 150,000 kg/m 3 (150 g/cm 3) at the center, and a temperature of 15 million kelvins (15 million degrees Celsius; 27 million degrees Fahrenheit).
A planetary core consists of the innermost layers of a planet. [1] Cores may be entirely liquid, or a mixture of solid and liquid layers as is the case in the Earth. [2] In the Solar System, core sizes range from about 20% (the Moon) to 85% of a planet's radius (Mercury). Gas giants also have cores, though the composition of these are still a ...
The Solar System [d] is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. [11] ... Eventually, the core will be hot enough for helium fusion ...
Stellar core. A stellar core is the extremely hot, dense region at the center of a star. For an ordinary main sequence star, the core region is the volume where the temperature and pressure conditions allow for energy production through thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium. This energy in turn counterbalances the mass of the star ...
A solar neutrino is a neutrino originating from nuclear fusion in the Sun 's core, and is the most common type of neutrino passing through any source observed on Earth at any particular moment. [citation needed] Neutrinos are elementary particles with extremely small rest mass and a neutral electric charge.
outer core–inner core boundary. Earth's inner core is the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth. It is primarily a solid ball with a radius of about 1,220 km (760 mi), which is about 20% of Earth's radius or 70% of the Moon 's radius. [1][2] There are no samples of the core accessible for direct measurement, as there are for Earth's ...
The sloshing of metal-rich fluid in the outer core generates electrical currents that power Earth’s magnetic field, which protects our planet from deadly solar radiation. Though the inner core ...
Current models of Solar System formation suggest that Jupiter formed at or beyond the snow line: a distance from the early Sun where the temperature was sufficiently cold for volatiles such as water to condense into solids. [26] First forming a solid core, the planet then accumulated its gaseous atmosphere.