The sun would be a very bold adventure to choose if you live on Earth; because if it takes a lot of bravery to look at the sun, then imagine all of the courage you would have to muster up to travel to it. It's understandable to be afraid of the very thing that allows life to prosper on Earth. As a friend and a foe, the sun sustains and endangers life. People throw on sunscreen, to keep themselves from overcooking outside of their homes. Yet, the sun provides photosynthesis for earth plants, which enables the conversion of energy into food through its chemical process. This huge heavenly body is 99.86% of the solar system's mass, but it is still considered a star of intermediate size. The star keeps nine major planets and all of their satellites into orbit, which really is not bad for an intermediate sized burning ball of gas.

The sun has three major layers. The three major layers are the sun core, the radiation zone, and the convection zone. The energy source of the sun is its core. Its source comes from thermonuclear reactions that stand at approximately fifteen to twenty million degrees Fahrenheit. Radiation and sunlight come from its innermost core. The core produces its energy by converting hydrogen into helium. This strong energy radiates through the middle layer called the radiation zone and then bubbles and boils through a process known as convection, in the convection zone of the sun's surface.

Solar wind is composed of charged particles that shoot out from the sun at least a million miles per hour. These charged particles marry the nitrogen and oxygen of Earth's atmosphere creating beautiful babies. They named it aurora borealis. We know this beautiful display of misty and colorful lights in the sky as the .

Solar Flares, also known as Space Weather, has the energy equal to a billion megatons of dynamite released each minute. This is probably the most perfect setting to film Looney Tunes. These flares are composed of gamma and x-rays that are energized protons and neutrons. As the activity of space weather increases, so do the number of sunspots. Sunspots are the cool dark areas created from the retardation of radiation through the sun's magnetic fields. They have an activity peak every eleven years.

This activity peak is called a solar maximum. This occurs every eleven years, so there will be a solar maximum in the years 2000, 2011, 2022, 2033…etc. This activity peak is even noticeable in the "northern lights". During a solar maximum, the sun bombards the Earth's atmosphere with extra doses of solar radiation. This affects satellites, by throwing them off their courses. As the years progress with the advancements in technology, the solar maximum is expected to increase in problem making for satellites and other technological breakthroughs.

We don't recommend landing on the sun, but if you were to walk on the sun, you would feel thirty eight times heavier because of its gravitational pull. Please, be safe. Make sure you are wearing a super special strong safe Sun suit!