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Cr eation Day 2: How God Separated the Mayim
• The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar system. Our Solar System - made up of our sun and 8 planets - is traveling at an average speed of 514,000 mph/ or 828,000 km/hr around the Milky Way's galactic center. • The four small, rocky inner planets that orbit closest to the sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. • The four larger, gaseous outer planets that orbit furthest from the sun are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. • The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in the solar system. • Earth is about 93 millions miles or 150 kilometers from the sun. This is called an astronomical unit and is used to measure distances in the solar system. • At that distance, a beam of light leaving the sun's surface, the photosphere, would take eight minutes and twenty seconds to reach Earth.
• Solar flares occur when magnetic energy is released by the Sun during magnetic storms, which we see as sunspots. In sunspots, the magnetic lines are twisted and they spin, much like a tornado would on Earth. • Solar wind occurs where the magnetic field of the Sun extends deep into space. We will find out in the next chapter how God has placed a magnetic shield around the earth to protect it from the damaging solar winds.
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