Where do Chunks of Lava or whatever go when they get of the sun giant explosions?

Question

Since the Sun is always having Nuclear Explosions on it's surface where does the matter end up that escapes into space?

Answer 1

It ends up... flying out into space. We call this stuff solar wind. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind

Intrestingly enough when a solar flare happens and is directed towards earth, we can get all sorts of wonderful charged particals blow at us that can knock out electrical grids, screw up satalites, and the like.

Answer 2

The sun's output is electromagnetic radiation and highly charged particles. There are no chunks - the sun is gaseous.

Incidentally, to get the size of the sun into proportion, because most people really do not have a real conception of it, the sun loses mass at the rate of 4 million tonnes every SECOND.

Yet, it will go on doing this for billions of years.

Also, the Earth only receives about one 2 billionth of the energy that the sun puts out. That's because from the sun's perspective the Earth is just a tiny speck in its sky. All the rest of its energy goes everywhere else.

What a waste - we should be capturing some of that. Then we would have energy for ever.

Answer 3

The sun doesn't have nuclear explosions on it's surface. The solar flares are just gas hiccups. Go north and watch the aurora. Those waves you see are some of the matter from solar flares.

Answer 4

the only thing that excapes the sun's gravity are radiation waves or energy that travels thru space known as solar winds.

Answer 5

god knows the answer