I need this literally explained like I’m 5, well actually 4. My 4 year old is asking what a “solar flare” is.
In: 3
Atoms are like same-side magnets. They don’t like to touch. But more-so. If you get enough stuff together, the gravity squeezes so hard that the atoms touch and then become the same atom. All that power that didn’t want them to touch gets released as heat, like a bomb. The light and heat from the sun is because so many of the atoms are constantly fusing into larger atoms.
Because it’s all super-hot, the surface is fluid and swirls about. Hotter bits fly up to the surface and leap out. Kinda like a cannon, because it is an explosion. If they leap high enough, they escape and leave the sun.
Solar flares are bits of the sun flying out of it. They’re usually small, they usually miss Earth, but have the potential to really mess things up.
Latest Answers