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Sun is a star, a vast spherical mass of hydrogen and helium in proportion 3:1 by weight; the proportion of other elements is less than 1% of total mass (1.9 × 1030 kg). The temperature in its central interior region is estimated to be very high ~2106 K; consequently huge amount of thermonuclear energy is generated in the central core by the process of nuclear fusion. Some of the basic characteristics of sun-earth system are illustrated in Fig. 2.1.
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Kaushika, N.D., Mishra, A., Rai, A.K. (2018). Solar Radiation Characteristics. In: Solar Photovoltaics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72404-1_2
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