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Do you assume the intensity of radiation is the same outside the glass, as it is inside the glass?
By 375 miles altitude the radiation is strong enough incinerate the thickest of tin foil hats.
The ~ 3 miles of yellow glass is necessary to block a lot of that radiation which you can feel coming from the Sun.
You're probably seeing the intense brightness of a nuclear reaction involving carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and helium, when you see sunlight on Earth. That is tremendously brighter than the brightest of spotlights made commercially in this world.
But in about 5 billion years, the sun will run out of hydrogen. Our star is currently in the most stable phase of its life cycle and has been since the formation of our solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago. Once all the hydrogen gets used up, the sun will grow out of this stable phase.
With no hydrogen left to fuse in the core, a shell of fusion hydrogen will form around the helium-filled core, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder wrote in an article for The Conversation (opens in new tab). Gravitational forces will take over, compressing the core and allowing the rest of the sun to expand.
Our star will grow to be larger than we can imagine — so large that it will envelope the inner planets, including Earth. That's when the sun will become a red giant, which it will remain for about a billion years.
Then, the hydrogen in that outer core will deplete, leaving an abundance of helium. That element will then fuse into heavier elements, like oxygen and carbon, in reactions that don't emit as much energy. Once all the helium disappears, the forces of gravity will take over, and the sun will shrink into a white dwarf. All the outer material will dissipate, leaving behind a planetary nebula.
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You're right: we don't have a clear view of the stars and moon: we just have a clear view of the sun light reflecting off of them
Betelgeuse is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky and, after Rigel, the second-brightest in the constellation of Orion. It is a distinctly reddish semiregular variable star whose apparent magnitude, varying between +0.0 and +1.6, has the widest range displayed by any first-magnitude star. At near-infrared wavelengths, Betelgeuse is the brightest star in the night sky. Its Bayer designation is α Orionis, Latinised to Alpha Orionis and abbreviated Alpha Ori or α Orion.
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Starting in October 2019, Betelgeuse began to dim noticeably, and by mid-February 2020 its brightness had dropped by a factor of approximately 3, from magnitude 0.5 to 1.7. By 22 February 2020, Betelgeuse stopped dimming and started to brighten again; and, as reported on 25 February 2022, has remained in a more normal brightness range.[19] Infrared observations found no significant change in brightness over the last 50 years, suggesting that the dimming is due to a change in extinction rather than an underlying change in the luminosity of the star. Further studies suggested that occluding "large-grain circumstellar dust" may be the most likely explanation for the dimming of the star.
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A red giant is a star that has exhausted the supply of hydrogen in its core and has begun thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen in a shell surrounding the core. They have radii tens to hundreds of times larger than that of the Sun.
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a few inches of dust above Heaven, is going to be absorbed by radiation;
there is tonnes of meteor dust clouding the atmosphere every day. About 17 meteors get blasted every day. The dust spreads apart so far it does not block any substantial amount of sunlight and settles on the ground over time.
The observatories are built on mountain tops because there is less atmosphere at a higher elevation. The air is dry which means there is less water vapor that refracts light and less light distortion. Also, the air is cleaner so there is smaller atmospheric turbulence which is causing image distortion too.
telescopeguides.com...
there is a bubble of VLF radio waves all around Earth around the location of Heaven
originally posted by: InachMarbank
a reply to: Oldcarpy2
Suuurre. And it's forcefully pulling the Earth around it at 666,000 mph without crushing all life in the process. Magical.
The facts are deduced by reading between the lines of this.
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You're probably seeing the intense brightness