How far do gases shoot out from the sun?
The diameter of the sun is estimated to be 864,000 miles more than 30 times the diameter of the earth. But this measurement does not include the restless gases of the sun’s atmosphere. Sometimes gases of the pale corona reach seven million miles above the surface of the sun. Other solar fireworks shoot up a million miles, and some solar particles reach much farther. The surface of the sun is so brilliant that it out dazzles the seething atmosphere above it, in the past, the blazing events in the solar atmosphere could be studied only during a total eclipse. The dazzling face of the sun is then blotted out by the dark disk of the moon, and the surrounding atmosphere can be seen as a halo. Since 1930, scientists have used a coronagraph to blot out the sun with a man made eclipse. With this instrument, astronomers can study at any time the activity in the gases of the sun’s atmosphere. Blazing upheavals are constantly erupting in the chromosphere level of the atmosphere, and shafts of pal
