The sun can be seen as the world’s biggest nuclear generator. It has an immense amount of hydrogen atoms in it, and each one is colliding with another one every second, creating another set of atom for an element known as helium.
This process, in which two atoms combine and break apart as a set of two different atoms is called nuclear fusion when the two atoms combine and a nuclear reaction describes the process through which they part to become a set of two different elements.
Know, let’s continue talking about the sun. The sun has a north and a south pole, and it also generates a magnetic field. The plasma inside the sun is circulating faster around the equator of the sun than the north or south poles. This is important, because the magnetic force lines, imaginary lines that represent the sun’s magnetic field, and up wrapping around due to this “differential rotation.”
Eventually, these magnetic force lines get kinks, and these kinks cause dark spots, which are spots on the sun that are hotter than the rest.
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