Why does the sun shine in the morning?

Question

Curious to know why the sun shines....any thoughts? ...Thanks.

Answer 1

The sun doesn't shine just in the morning. It is always shining however our earth rotates which this rotation create the day and night effects.

If you do a little experiment with a torch light (1 meter away) shining directly at a circular object. slowly rotate the circular object (orange will do) you will see only 1 side of the object is expose to the light and the other side of the object is going into dark where the other side is into the light.

Therefore we human label it morning when the side of the earth is about to expose to the sun and evening to the side when it is about to be hidden from the sun.

Answer 2

Energy (lots) generated in the core.

It makes its way to the surface as heat.

Surface gets heated to 5780 K (9900 F).  This is hot enough for the surface to glow.

(Same way that a filament, in a toaster, glows with a red color when heated to 2000 K, or a tungsten filament in a traditional light bulb glows yellow when heated to around 3300 K).

Heat any object to 5780 K, at it will glow with exactly the same color and flux as the Sun.  In general, it does not matter what the material is (well... there are exceptions).

It does this morning, noon and nighty-night-night.

Answer 3

In the sun (and other stars), hydrogen atoms fuse together to create helium, and this nuclear fusion produces a massive amount of energy in the form of heat, radiation, and light.  That's why the sun shines, as well as all other stars.

Answer 4

because its a glowing star on fire? :D

Answer 5

it shines in the morning becuase most people sleep at night.... the sun doesn't wanna make most of the people angry by keeping them awake at night.

Answer 6

because the product of fusion of hydrogen into helium is heat and light the light is what makes the sun shine.

Answer 7

Since those other answers are very good, I'll just add this: Your eyes adjust to the darkness of night and so when you first walk out into the morning sun, your eyes take a little while to re-adjust to daylight. Thats why the morning sun  often seems brighter that the rest of the day.

This effect is also part of how your internat clock works and why you may feel more wide awake in the morning and sleepy in the evening.

Answer 8

Because the sun likes to smile at the happy people cursing at people on i95 on the way to work during a traffick jam

Answer 9

The sun is a natural thermonuclear reactor.  It's made mostly out of hydrogen, and is big enough that its gravity creates so much pressure in its core that hydrogen atoms combine into helium, which releases energy in the form of light and heat.  It converts about 400 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second.  Any amount of hydrogen with a mass of at least 10% of the sun will undergo thermonuclear reactions.  The earth is only about .0003% of the sun's mass, and is made mostly out of silicates.

Answer 10

?that's it's job.

i guess it is too hot to not release it's energy. i actually believe it is because we need it to live.

i read the other's answers, most are very knowledgeable and isn't it amazing they come here to answer; do you ever wonder what they are getting when they do? do you think it's about the points? some of them ask questions they know the answers to, just to help those that try to answer to understand.

maybe like the sun, it is just the way it is.