Can anyone tell me about the sun?

[Sir K]

I'm writing about the Sun in a book i'll be writing about called the "Perfect Solar Storm". I want to have my facts straight.

I know every 11 years there is a solar storm. I know about some things... but... i'd like to have a good amount of information for this book.

So as much as anyone could tell me about the Sun... i'd greatly appriciate it. (I'm not stupid... don't go telling me that Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto revolve around the Sun. I already know that!)

And i also have another question! Why can't we just send all of our garbage and nuclear/radioactive material toward the Sun?!!! I mean seriously! It won't harm the Sun and will burn up... right?! Why has no one thought of this?

 

[Ty B]

it would cost way to much money to send the trash to the moon.
1 you would need a rocket bigger than the saturn 5.
2 the rocket would not even be able to carry much trash with it.3 what ever trash it did bring to the sun would not be worth blowing a hole in the O-zone using that much rocket fuel.

also the suns equator rotates faster than its poles. when those huge arks of radiation cross paths because of this it causes a solar storm. you need to take it out of your book that solar storms happen every 11 years cause thats wrong.

at one point about 5-10 years ago earth was hit with a huge solar storm but our magnetic field protected us. unfortionatly within the next 24 hours we were hit again. this overloaded the power grid in the NE united states causing a huge blackout. the reason the second storm effected us was because our magnetic field was still recovering.

you can tell when earth has ben hit with a solar storm because thats when you see the northern lights.

 

[steve h]

to answer your question, that is what research is for. when writing a book it is all on you to find material for it, you can use ideas and research of what others have done but yahoo answers is not a place for that.

as of shooting our garbage to the sun. its been thought of plenty of times. 1. your talking spending millions possibly billions on something that's going to get destroyed. 2. you would have to have a steady flow just to keep up, considering payloads would probably be limited to a few tons. 3. fuel for the rocket, in which case demand would exceed supply.
so its not a question of why hasn't anyone thought of it, its more what's the best and economical way that we can do at the now, and that isn't it. possibly when technology catches up to ideas then maybe. then again we might find a better use for our garbage by then.