Solar flares
By ready2earn
@ready2earn (435)
Italy
December 18, 2006 1:30pm CST
Is the force of a solar flare enough to actually cause the Sun to move at all(even slightly)? and if it doesn't, where is the necessary 'equal and opposite force' exerted?
1 response
@constaanta (571)
• Germany
18 Dec 06
As I understood, the sun mainly is loosing mass in two ways: first from particels called the "solar wind" and secondly by radiation (the melting of hydrogen into helium means loosing mass, which is turned into radiation).
The flares cause solar wind as well as radiation. So .... they slowly slowly slowly contribute to changes of the sun´s mass and therefore also the sun´s position relative to the planets as well as to Sirius.
