Answer to Question #173609 in Astronomy | Astrophysics for ANJU JAYACHANDRAN

Question

2. a) What is the nature of radiation generated in the Sun’s interior? How does it differ 

from the radiation we receive from the Sun? What causes granulation of the 

photosphere?

Answer 1

The nature of radiation generated in the Sun’s interior is electromagnetic.

It is different from the radiation we receive from the Sun not in nature, but in characteristics: amplitude, wavelength, frequency.

Convection currents cause the granulation in the photosphere: