ASTR 1P01 Lecture Notes - Lecture 50: Solar Flare, Solar Wind, Sunspot

• School: Brock University
• Department: Astronomy
• Course: ASTR 1P01
• Professor: Bozidar Mitrovic

Document Summary

Earth is 16000km wide and each subsequent step will be 100 times larger. As you travel south you start to see stars and the constellations which are the group of stars you could not see before. We live in a spinning sphere of rock and iron circling the sun our planet earth. The interior ofour planet is hot and that heat creates the motion inside the earth. Our similarities with mars and venus is that our planet has winds in the thin envelope of gas that shelters us swirl around our planet much as similar winds sweep the alien landscapes of. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. This rotation is responsible for the shifting of the stars which moves from e---to---w and that is because we are located in the earth that itself is spinning from w---to---e. The motion of the stars (from e---to---w) is called the daily motions stars.