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Quran,Translation and Commentary in Brief (Vol. 03)
AND THE MOON A FEW SIGNS OF GOD'S GREATNESS (VERSE NO. 5 - 6)

      The sun is the only STAR that is near enough to our earth to be observed in detail.

      The sun's mean distance from the earth is about 92900,000ِmiles, and it takes 8.3 minute for a photon of sun's light to reach our earth; where as the light of the next nearest star requires more the four years to reach the earth.

Most of the sun's radiation emerges from a layer on its surface, called PHOTOSPHERE, which is 250 miles thick. The temperature of sun's visible surface is 11000 F³ or 5750³ ABSOLUTE. Sun's atmosphere consists of transparent gases which has the red glow seen round the sun during total eclipse. More than sixty chemical elements have been recognized in the sun from studies of the normal solar and chromospheric spectra. Almost all the material elements that are found in the earth, are believed to be present in the sun, but the lighter elements such as hydrogen accounts for about 76% of the mass of the sun. Helium is the second element in abundance which account for 23% of the mass.

      The sun like our earth does rotate on its axis, but for being gaseous, unlike the solid earth, its rotation period is not the same in all latitudes. The rotation period of the sun becomes longer, as the distance from the equator increases.

      The period is less than 25 days at the equator, and about 27 days at solar latitude 35³, and as much as 33 days nearer to the poles of the sun.

 

 

 

AND THE MOON A FEW SIGNS OF GOD'S GREATNESS (VERSE NO. 5 - 6)
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