Sun Characteristics Vocabulary

Hot gas rises and cooler gas sinks in this interior layer of the sun.

• Chromosphere

• core

• Convection zone

• Corona

Sudden Burst of hot gas and energy from the photosphere

• Coronal Mass Ejection (CME)

• Prominence

• Solar Flare

• Sun Spot

Darker, cooler regions on the sun's photosphere

• Plasma

• Prominence

• Solar Flare

• Sunspot

A sphere of plasma in space that undergoes nuclear fusion and is held together by hydrostatic equilibrium.

• Planet

• Star

• Fission center

• Moon

Center of the sun where fusion takes place.

• Chromosphere

• Convection zone

• Core

• Corona

Layer of the sun that is visible to us daily

• Photosphere

• Chromosphere

• Radiation Zone

• Coronal Mass Ejection Zone

Middle Layer of the sun's atmosphere

• Photosphere

• Core

• Sun Spot

• Chromosphere

Outer layer of the suns's atmosphere where CME burst out from

• Coronal Mass Ejection

• Corona

• Prominence

• Solar Flare

Massive burst of gas and energy from the corona

• Prominence

• Radiation zone

• Solar Flare

• Coronal Mass Ejection

Huge Loop of gas linking sunspots on the photosphere

• Sunspot

• Prominence

• Plasma

• Star