Like a parfait, the Sun has layers.
Earth is inside the Sun’s atmosphere. The sun has layers: the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona. The corona extends millions of kilometers into space, and even though we are 150 million km away, Earth lives in it.
That’s why we are affected by solar winds. Charged particles constantly stream outward from the corona and fill the entire solar system. The boundary of the Sun’s influence is called the heliosphere, which extends far beyond Pluto and acts like a giant magnetic shield around the solar system. The solar wind shapes Earth’s space environment, it compresses Earth’s magnetic field and helps create phenomena like auroras when particles interact with our atmosphere.
The Sun’s corona is hotter than its surface; the visible surface is about 5,500°C (fun fact: the Earth’s core is approximately 5,400°C), and the corona can reach millions of degrees.
At the heliosphere’s edge, the solar wind slows down and meets interstellar gas at a region called the heliopause, where the Sun’s atmosphere finally loses dominance.
The space around Earth is filled with solar plasma, not ‘empty space’, it’s actually a low-density ocean of charged particles from the Sun.
Amazing!
R. J. Davies
A Riveting Jacked-In Dreamy Mind-Bender
RJ Davies - Science Fiction Author, Maddox Files, Novels











