My mate told me that the sun turns white at night time. I dont know whether to believe him or not.
2006-09-08 03:06:13 · 18 answers · asked by Bosco 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I was only messing when asking this question but I am glad I got alot of responses from poindexters. fair play to you all.
2006-09-10 23:23:06 · update #1
no, they're totally different.
2006-09-08 03:11:15 · answer #1 · answered by japanflaskhour 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should read some books or websites on astronomy that will give you an idea of how the Solar System works, then you will know whether to believe ideas your friends put forward or not, as you will have a basis on which to assess them. As it is, you are just open to suggestion from the most barmy ideas circulating. And there are some pretty barmy ones in circulation on this site:
some recent examples:
Mars will look as big as the Moon when it comes close to Earth.
The Moon is 20 miles away.
There is no Moon, it is an optical illusion
The Moon is about to explode
The Moon is about to crash into the earth.
These are all complete nonsense, as is your mate's idea. Sorry to have to be brutally honest, but he doesn't know what he is talking about. And nor do any if the other 5 correspondents I have quoted.
So the first rule is don't believe everything you read or hear.
And the second rule is: choose a reliable source of information, like the NASA website, or space.com, not the tittle-tattle people pass on via the internet (including this site).
2006-09-09 04:18:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they are merely the same apparent size to the human eye, The sun is a ball of very hot gas 93 million miles away, the moon is a lump of cold rock, a quarter of a million miles away,
How does your mate explain the fact that when your country has night-time and can see the white object he says is the "sun", someone on the other side of the world has daytime and can see the sun being the yellow object we see when we have daytime? How does it manage to be both at once?
2006-09-08 18:14:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask your mate to explain a total Eclipse of the Sun. Is that the Sun that is going across itself and obscuring itself? If not, then they are two different objects, aren't they?
And ask him to explain a total eclipse of the Moon. What. does he think, is the light source from behind the earth that causes the earth's shadow to fall on the Moon and for a few minutes make it hidden from view?
There cannot be a shadow unless there is a source of light to cause a shadow. And how can the Sun be simultaneously BOTH the cause of the shadow falling on the Moon and BE the Moon on which the shadow falls, at one and the same time?
I would like to hear his explanations!
2006-09-08 03:36:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fool....are you stupid. Damn people we need better education in this world. The Sun is the star at the center of our Solar System.
The Sun is a massive ball of very hot gasses held together by gravity. The Moon is thought to have formed when a rogue Mars—sized planet collided with the Earth 4.6 billion years ago. The Moon shines only by reflected light from the sun.
2006-09-08 03:16:14 · answer #5 · answered by sour_apple809 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Afraid not, How is the sun supposed to know when it is night-time on earth, to be able to change its colour on cue, like a chamelion? The length of the night varies throughout the year. In the Arctic Circle it is day for six months at a time and then night for 6 months at a time.
It just burns away solidly regardless of any of the planets or moons spinning on their axes.
2006-09-09 07:16:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sun and the Moon are totally different..for example, the sun is the primary source of heat and light while the moon only reflects light from the sun.
2006-09-08 04:38:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! What he told you is stupid! The sun is different from the moon! It's just that at night, the sun gives light to the moon!!!
2006-09-08 03:23:48 · answer #8 · answered by DennisEvanescence 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask your mate to explain why on certain days, you can see the moon and the sun simultaneously.
2006-09-08 03:24:53 · answer #9 · answered by Phillip 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are as different as chalk and cheese. And I don't mean that the Moon is made out of cheese and that the Sun is made out of chalk!
They are simply different classes of celestial object. An intensely hot ball of gas engaged in nuclear fusion processes, and a much much smaller (one four-hundredth of the radius) lump of cold rock.
2006-09-09 15:15:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no! dont listen to him read a sience book the earth rotates creating day and night and the moon refelcts light from the sun
2006-09-08 03:32:45 · answer #11 · answered by ladybug_ref 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋