Energyfromthesun.pptVIP

Earth’s Surface Earth Orbit Solar System Mars Do you have any questions or topics you would like to discuss? For those interested in talking more, contact me at: joseph.c.kolecki@grc.nasa.gov Energy from the SunPart I Our sun is a star, one of a population of around 300-400 billion or so that make up the Milky Way Galaxy. It is not necessarily a distinguished star, as stars go, except for having the only planet know to humans as bearing life. Our sun is described, in terms of modern physics, as a sustained thermonuclear reaction that has been running for somewhere in the vicinity of 5 billi