Thursday, May 20, 2010

Hello citizens

Q: What is it called when someone is allergic to the sun?

Photosensitivity

what the sun does to your skin?

The sun is important and also dangerous.
Sun is the most popular way of getting vitamin d,
the main way of getting vitamin d is the sun.

The sun also has risks such as ,
skin cancer , when you over expose yourself to the sun
wrinkles , freckles , sun spots , sun burn.
Sun burn is very sore sometimes it's when your skin gets burnt and it goes really raw red and is very painful.
You get sun stroke when you have far too much sun burn.
Pale skins should wear a high factor sun cream in the sun because pale people are most prone to sun stroke.
If you get sun stroke the most important thing is keep your self hydrated .
If you want to releave the pain put lots of after sun on you or have a cold bath.
The sun is great but it has alot of risks! So if you are enjoying the sun do it in a healthy manor!

Monday, May 17, 2010

Fun interesting facts about the sun

*Only 55% of Ameiricans know the sun is a star!

* Lightning volts can sometimes, very rarely , but be hotter than the sun itself!

*It takes the sun percisely 8 minutes to reach the earth. So if you see the sun go out, it acually went out 8 minutes before hand!

*In Berden, Norway the sun shines on the same spot for 3 and a half months

*For 186 days of the year in the north pole people cannot see the sun shining!

*Aztecs believed that the sun died every night and they believed it needed human blood to make it shine the following day. Each year the Aztecs would sacrafise 1500 men!

*All the oil,coal,gas etc. would only keep the sun shining for a few days!

*The sun supplies the earth with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy everyday!

*More that one million earth would fit inside the sun!

Friday, May 14, 2010

where the sun got its name 'sun'

There is many myths of how the sun got it's name. The name 'sun' got it's name from the anglo saxton 'sunne' which is turn in sunne which in german terms

the sun

The sun makes people happy because it releases seratonin in the blood. Seratonin is a chemical which is releases in the brain causing happyness, lots of talk and also causes excitment!
The sun also makes people happy because most people go away or do something exciting when it is sunny ,then the memory of the sun they have will always be remembered as they had a great memory. So when people see that it's sunny it automatically boost their spirits.

Friday, May 7, 2010

http://www.5min.com/Video/Learn-about-The-Sun-117573324

This is a video about the sun, its a educational video

This picture is copied from google images

Thursday, May 6, 2010

What will happen when the sun dies out

The sun will end by the hydrogen giving fuel to the earths core will run out. The sun will turn into a rapid red ball , finally cooling until it becomes a white dwarf.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

The sun

The sun is one of billions of stars.
It rotates around the earth every 27 days.
The sun is a middle aged star which means it is at the middle of is life,
it has been shining for over four and a half billion years ago.
It might be a bit scary to think it is halfway through it's life but it isn't the sun will be shining for another atleast 5 billion years more .
The surface of the sun is called the photosphere, it is about 10,000° Fahrenheit.
The core is in the centre off the sun , the core is 27 million° Fahrenheit.
The sun is 333,000 times heavier than the earth and 870 miles wider!
In ancient times , ancient people thought the sun was a burning ball off fire created by gods. You are not meant to look at the sun because it damages your iris of your eye! There are some stars called supergiant stars that are 400 times bigger than the sun!
The sun is 25 million lightyears away galactic core of our galaxy .

Thursday, April 22, 2010

introduction

Hello, my name is Laoise ,
My blog is about many differant
aspects of the sun.
I am writing about the sun because
I am interested in it .
Enjoy