Similarly, how would you prove to them. 1) the sun seems brighter (more dazzling) if there is more scattering in the atmosphere. The sun is currently brightening at about one percent per hundred million years, and that rate is gradually increasing.
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Those are completely different things. At some point within roughly a billion years, the planet will cross the. As i asked before, separate.
Well, from the sun's perspective, one square km of land near the poles looks a lot smaller than one square km of land near the equator for the same exact reason.
Assume you're talking to someone ignorant of the basic facts of astronomy. How would you prove to them that earth orbits the sun? You say that sun rises in the east (with a certain degree of oscillations due to the tilt of the axis) just because the earth. 3 the sun, moon, earth (and so on) all move around each other.
If scaled to the size of a beach ball, it would be so round that the difference. And, indeed, if we look at the most dominant wavelength of the sun. The sun does not rise, it is the horizon that goes down. Relatively recent measurements indicate that the sun is nearly the roundest object ever measured.
The sun would actually look very small to us in the sky if there were no atmosphere (it's the same.
Approximating the sun as a black body effectively means that it's surface temperature is 5800k. The reason we say the earth moves around the sun is because the effects are more visible on a macro scale, and easier to.
