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Solar core
« on: December 30, 2018, 03:03:39 pm »
Solar core
 

The core of the Sun is considered to extend from the center to about 0.2 to 0.25 solar radius.[1] It is the hottest part of the Sun and of the Solar System. It has a density of up to 150 g/cm³ (150 times the density of liquid water) and a temperature of close to 15,000,000 kelvin, or about 15,000,000 Celsius; by contrast, the surface of the Sun is close to 6,000 kelvin. The core is made of hot, dense gas in the plasmic state. The core, inside 0.24 solar radius, generates 99% of the fusion power of the Sun.

Energy production

About 3.6×1038 protons (hydrogen nuclei) are converted into helium nuclei every second, releasing mass and energy at the mass-energy equivalence rate of 4.3 million tonnes per second, 380 yottawatts (3.8×1026 watts), equivalent to 9.1 ×1010 megatons of TNT per second.

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