It's Sun-Day

Referring to the advancements in technology to study the sun,"Before, it was solar dermatology," says Scharmer. "Now it's really astrophysics."

It's amazing that people still believe in Evolution with facts like these:

1. The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is 93,000,000 miles. It takes light eight and a half minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth, 40 minutes to reach Jupiter and 7 hours to reach the edge of the Solar System
2. 
   The diameter of the Sun is 870,000 miles, 109 times larger than the Earth's. Its volume is big enough to hold over 1 million Earths.
3. Green plants use the Sun's rays to turn carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates. (which tells you why fruits aren’t on the South Beach Diet)
4. 
   If the Sun was brighter, it would be hotter and would have burnt off its hydrogen fuel billions of years ago. This means that, if the Sun is any different to how it is now, life on Earth would not exist. It is the perfect size, perfect age, perfect distance, perfect temperature and perfect brightness for life to exist on a planet like Earth.
5. 
   If we could remove the bright, glowing surface of the Sun, we would see nothing other than blackness. Only the Sun's outer surface shines brightly. The inside of the Sun is complete darkness.
6. 
   The Sun was formed, like every other star, from a huge swirling cloud of gas called a nebula. The cloud contained all the matter which went together to form the Sun and its family of 9 planets, 61 moons and hundreds of thousands of asteroids, meteors and comets. In total, 98% of the matter in the cloud formed the Sun. The other 2% formed all of the other objects in the Solar System. And, just in case you want to know what the mass of the Sun is, it's about 1,989,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms!

Our concept of the twenty-four-hour day comes from Egyptian Sun worship. The Egyptian Sun god, Ra, traveled half the time through the twelve domains of the underworld and half through the twelve domains of the day. Three thousand years before the birth of Christ, Egypt began using a 365 day calendar based on the solar year. In 46 BC, Julius Caesar replaced the Roman lunar calendar with a solar calendar modeled after the Egyptian calendar. Today, 5,000 years later, we still use a form of the Egyptian solar calendar.

Random Planet Factoid: Uranus' pale blue color is caused by the methane in its atmosphere which filters out red light. (Go ahead and make a joke about that one…)

It's equally amazing what you can find out on a Google Search!

Songs of the Day:

Why Does The Sun Shine- They Might Be Giants (you're gonna learn a lesson in this song)

Mellow Song-Rooney(Or Losing All Control-according to Susan :} )

Spitting Games-Snow Patrol