How Long Is A Day On The Sun?

Опубликовано 4 августа 2016, 19:00

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This video is about the definition of a day, and how it applies (or not) on the sun. Solar day, sidereal day, universal coordinated time (UTC) day, etc. Length of a day.

Music by Nathaniel Schroeder, soundcloud.com/drschroeder

REFERENCES:

Solar rotation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_ro...

Gravitational Time Dilation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitat...

UTC Day: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universa...

XKCD What-If about being transported to the sun for an instant: what-if.xkcd.com/115

Reference from what-if about time to 2nd degree burns: arcadvisor.com/faq/threshold-i...

Oxygen on the sun: astronomy.stackexchange.com/qu...

Combustion in space: fs.fed.us/rm/pubs\_other/rmrs\...

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