A Closer Look at our own Star

The Amazing Sun 

The closest star to Earth is, of course, our Sun. There is nothing quite so impressive - near to Earth - as our Sun to demonstrate the great power of our Creator! So, just for a moment, let's take a closer look at our nearest star - our own Sun, called Chammah, in Hebrew. The more we discover about the Sun, the more powerful we learn that it is. Thus, in Scripture, the Sun is often used a metaphor depicting the power of God and the endurance of His mighty Throne.

Psalm 84:11 "For Yahweh God is a Sun and shield: Yahweh will give grace and glory: no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly."

Psalm 89:36  "His seed shall endure for ever, and His Throne as the Sun before me."

The Sun is a near-perfect sphere of hot plasma. Plasma (not to be confused with blood plasma) is one of our four fundamental states of matter, which are: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A plasma is a hot, ionized gas with approximately equal numbers of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons. It has different characteristics from ordinary, neutral gases, which is why a plasma is considered to be the fourth state of matter.

The surface of the Sun is dynamic with an internal convective motion, which generates a magnetic field. It is about 864,000 miles in diameter (1.39 million kilometers), which is 109 times larger than Earth. Also, the Sun's mass is about 330,000 times more than the Earth. It's mass consists of hydrogen (about 73%); while the rest is mostly helium (about 25%) with small quantities of heavier elements including oxygen, carbon, neon, and iron.

The Sun's surface appears to be churning, seething, and at times even exploding into space.
The Sun's surface experiences solar flares or magnetic storms. These appear to be a very bright spot on the sun and a gaseous surface eruption. 

A solar flare releases huge amounts of high-energy particles and gases, which are ejected thousands of miles from the surface of the Sun. Recently, scientists discovered that solar flares can cause powerful sunquakes (which are violent seismic events) on the surface of the Sun. When a sunquake occurs, energy is released in seismic waves on the relatively fluid surface of the Sun. Sunquakes are powerful and would rate about 11.3 on the Richter scale, which means they release about 40,000 times more energy than the famous 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Another impressive way the Sun releases energy is the solar prominence. A solar prominence (also known as a filament) is an arc of gas that erupts from the surface of the Sun. Prominences can loop hundreds of thousands of miles into space. The following video clip shows a massive solar prominence. This image was taken in 2011 by NASA's Sun-orbiting, Solar Dynamic Observatory.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBL1RBj-P1g

The scale of this prominence is huge. The entire Earth would easily fit under the arcing curtain of gas. 

But as impressive and awe-inspiring as this star is, consider how much more powerful must be its Creator! Scripture tells us that our Creator breathes out stars - like our Sun, yes, but many more are so massive that they make our own Sun appear no bigger than the period at the end of this sentence!

Psalms 33:6  "By the Word of Yahweh were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of His Mouth."

Keep that in mind the next time you're tempted to think you're troubles are too big for God to handle!

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