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  1. astronomy - How big a coincidence is the Sun and Moon having …

    May 3, 2020 · It's consensus that the very similar apparent sizes of the Moon and the Sun as seen from Earth is a coincidence (as already answered in this site). This provides us with …

  2. How much lux does the Sun emit? - Physics Stack Exchange

    I want to know how much lux the sun emits on a bright day - I don't mean when one stares directly at the sun, but rather when one walks casually outside when the sun is shinning brightly. Now the

  3. How long until the sun cannot sustain human life on earth?

    The sun will last, at its current brightness for 9 billion more years. How long until the sun gets burned down to the point where it cannot sustain life on Earth anymore? Updated: I am more …

  4. How is distance between sun and earth calculated?

    Feb 15, 2011 · Do you want to know both how the Earth-sun distance is measured and how the speed of light is measured? Those are completely different things. As I asked before, separate …

  5. What is actually meant by 'sun set' and 'sun rise' times, when …

    Feb 15, 2017 · If this is the case, then when we read things like what time sun sets and rises on websites, books, calendars, other official times, et al… does that mean when we see for …

  6. What is the simplest way to prove that Earth orbits the Sun?

    Apr 17, 2015 · Assume you're talking to someone ignorant of the basic facts of astronomy. How would you prove to them that Earth orbits the Sun? Similarly, how would you prove to them …

  7. Is the distance between the Sun and the Earth increasing?

    Besides the moon, the sun has a tidal component for the earths oceans, and when that crashes into continents the energy absorbed comes from the potential energy of the sun-earth system. …

  8. How fast will the sun become a red giant? - Physics Stack Exchange

    The sun is currently brightening at about one percent per hundred million years, and that rate is gradually increasing. At some point within roughly a billion years, the planet will cross the …

  9. Historically, how do we know that Earth moves around Sun? And it …

    Questions: -- Sun is something we see on daily basis, so it would not be strange if humankind got curious to know about it, and made theories,observations,maths to prove it. How did …

  10. Why is 1 AU the distance between the Sun and the Earth?

    In the 1800's the AU was connected to: the time average of 1 divided by the Earth-Sun, and that is the reason Gauss's constant occurred (until 2012) in the calculation of the AU.