THERE is a hole in the sun. Right in the middle, a mass the size of 1500
Earths has simply disappeared. Much of what we know about the sun’s
behaviour says it should be there – but when we interpret the data encoded
in sunlight, that chunk of stuff is nowhere to be seen.
That has shaken up our understanding of how the sun works https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329870-500-strangest-star-6-things-we-didnt-know-about-the-sun/,
and physicists are struggling to figure out what fills that hole. It could
be a thing, like dark matter. It could be a concept, with elements such as
carbon and nitrogen simply behaving in a way we didn’t expect under
crushing pressure. Or perhaps we’re looking at the sun in the wrong way.
It’s a very hot problem, says Sunny Vagnozzi, a physicist at Stockholm
University in Sweden. That’s no joke. The sun https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627640-800-whats-wrong-with-the-sun/is
important not just because it supplies the heat and light that sustain us.
It is also our key to the wider universe, the reference against which we
measure stars: their brightness, their age, how likely their solar systems
are to support life https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24980-star-next-door-may-host-a-superhabitable-world/.
Start messing with the sun, and the consequences stretch as far as our
telescopes can see. “If we get the sun wrong, we get everything wrong,”
says Sarbani Basu at Yale University.
It’s not easy to figure out what’s inside the sun. “We can’t go and take a
sample,” says Basu. There are two main ways to investigate.
Helioseismologists https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12933-sun-may-be-smaller-than-thought/
such
as Basu look at sound vibrations on the sun’s surface, which give outward
evidence of the vast quantities of energy being unleashed within. That
Soretna , thanks for focussing on the hollowness of our Sun and stars in general . This topic deserves lot more study than has been done so far .
God help us if we have got the mechanics of our Sun wrong . Implications could range from a sudden ice age that stikes "apparently" without any warning , or solar storms analogous to a "category 5" Hurricane that could wipe out every electrical technology on Earth.
Bizarre as it may sound , the Sun might actually have a solid , glassy surface made mostly or iron , with a hollow interior. The nuclear fusion reactions take place only in the Sun's Corona which is exterior to the Sun , not in it's interior as mainstream astronomy proposes . The below article is a very , very interesting read about such possibilities in our Sun :
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QUOTE:THERE is a hole in the sun. Right in the middle, a mass the size of 1500 Earths has simply disappeared. Much of what we know about the sun’s behaviour says it should be there – but when we interpret the data encoded in sunlight, that chunk of stuff is nowhere to be seen.That has shaken up our understanding of how the sun works, and physicists are struggling to figure out what fills that hole. It could be a thing, like dark matter. It could be a concept, with elements such as carbon and nitrogen simply behaving in a way we didn’t expect under crushing pressure. Or perhaps we’re looking at the sun in the wrong way.It’s a very hot problem, says Sunny Vagnozzi, a physicist at Stockholm University in Sweden. That’s no joke. The sunis important not just because it supplies the heat and light that sustain us. It is also our key to the wider universe, the reference against which we measure stars: their brightness, their age, how likely their solar systems are to support life. Start messing with the sun, and the consequences stretch as far as our telescopes can see. “If we get the sun wrong, we get everything wrong,” says Sarbani Basu at Yale University.It’s not easy to figure out what’s inside the sun. “We can’t go and take a sample,” says Basu. There are two main ways to investigate. Helioseismologists such as Basu look at sound vibrations on the sun’s surface, which give outward evidence of the vast quantities of energy being unleashed within. That