The Surface Of The Sun Has a Hard Surface

The sun’s photosphere is often mistakenly referred to as the surface of the sun.  In reality however, the sun’s photosphere is only a "liquid-like" plasma layer made of neon that covers the actual surface of the sun.  That visible layer we see with our eyes is more commonly known as penumbral filaments.   This visible neon plasma layer, as well as a thicker, deeper plasma layer of silicon, entirely covers the actual rocky, calcium ferrite surface layer of the sun.  The visible photosphere covers the transitional region that is the actual surface of the sun, much as the earth’s oceans cover most of the surface of the earth.   In this case the sun’s photosphere is very bright and we cannot see the darker surface features below without the aid of satellite technology.

The composition and mechanical inner workings of the sun beneath the visible photosphere have remained an enigma for thousands of years.  There are a whole host of unexplained phenomena related to the sun’s activities that still baffle gas model theorists to this day because they fail to recognize the existence of an iron alloy transitional layer that rests beneath the visible photosphere.  Fortunately a host of new satellites and the field of heliosiesmology are starting to shed light on this mysterious transitional layer of the sun that is located about 4800km beneath the visible photosphere.  In addition, recent studies of solar wind suggest that solar wind also originates on the same transition layer under the photosphere as do the electrically charged coronal loops.  NASA’s SOHO satellite and the Trace satellite program have both imaged this transition layer of the sun that sits beneath the photosphere.  These 21st century satellites and technologies now enable us to peer behind the outer plasma layers of the chromosphere and photosphere and allow us to study the rocky, calcium ferrite transitional layer with incredible precision.

Galileo was the founding father of the gas model theory of the sun.  He observed the sun through a relatively primitive telescope and noticed that sunspots did not rotate uniformly across the surface of the photosphere.  He also observed that this visible “surface” rotated at different speeds near the equator than it did near the poles. 

From his study of sunspots and their uneven movement, Galileo surmised that he must be looking at some type of gas.  He was correct in that assessment, although today we know that the photosphere is a form of hot ionized plasma.  Unfortunately Galileo also "assumed" that no other solid layers existed, or could exist beneath the visible layer of the photosphere.  That was a critical mistake.  It was a bit like looking at a world covered in water, and having no ability to see beneath the water and simply  assuming that the whole world is made of water.

While the gas model has enjoyed popular support over the past 50 years, that has not always been the case.  In fact astronomers of 100 years ago believed in a predominantly iron sun, most notably Dr. Kristian Birkeland.  Dr. Birkeland studied the Northern Lights and became interested in the electrical interaction between the sun and the earth.  His early lab research with a with an electrified iron sphere suspended in a vacuum led to images that are remarkably similar to modern satellite x-ray images of the sun.  The bottom photo of this page shows the electrical activity that Birkeland documented in his lab next to an image from the Yohkoh satellite.  The electrical arcs from the surface of both spheres is what emits the x-rays and gamma rays seen in Yohkoh and RHESSI images of the sun.  

The running difference imaging technique used by both NASA and Lockheed Martin have revealed to us for the first time that the sun is not simply a ball of hydrogen gas; it has a hard and rigid ferrite surface below the visible photosphere that can be seen in all of the images on this page!  Each of these images was produced directly from NASA or Lockheed Martin so you can verify these images for yourself. 

Just as Birkeland surmised, it turns out that the sun has a highly defined surface that rotates (uniformly) every 27.3 days.  Dr. Birkeland was at least 100 years ahead of his time.

An important corroboration of Dr. Birkeland’s solar theories and laboratory experiments  came forty years later in the work of Dr. Charles Bruce.  Dr. Bruce documented a number of solar atmospheric phenomenon that were directly related to electrical discharges from the solar surface.  Bruce confirmed what Birkeland had predicted nearly fifty years earlier, showing that the electrical activity was directly responsible for the high energy discharges from the solar surface.  The electrical discharge nature of the coronal loops has since been confirmed by the University of Maryland.

A significant corroborating set of data came a decade or so later from the work of Dr. Oliver Manuel.   Dr. Manuel confirmed via isotope analysis of lunar soil samples, and the study of meteorites, that the sun is predominantly made of iron and mass separates the plasma in it’s atmosphere.  Unfortunately their hard efforts would not be visually confirmed for another three decades.   

It turns out however, that modern satellite images now lend strong observational support for the electrical model of the sun originally described by Dr. Kristian Birkeland in the early 1900′s and later verified by Dr. Charles Bruce and Dr. Oliver Manuel.   Dr. Charles Bruce and a  number of other scientists have already demonstrated the electrical nature of the sun’s activities and have put forth solid surface theories of the sun based on predictions that are supported by direct observation.  These models simply never gained momentum and ultimately fell out of "style" in the field of astronomy in mid to late part of the 20th century in favor of a gas model theory of the sun.  Fortunately science still enjoys a small minority of dedicated scientists and maverick thinkers that have long promoted a very different, very iron rich model of the sun based on many decades of sound sweat equity, solid scientific research, and careful observation.  In recent months, many of Dr. Manuel’s conclusions about our sun being composed of material from a supernova remnant have been confirmed by direct evidence.   It turns out that these visual observations of an iron rich surface were predicted via the field of nuclear chemistry more than three decades earlier, while the experiments to support these ideas and many mathematical predictions had been verified over 50 years ago and were originally predicted by Birkeland almost 100 years earlier!  Studies of quasars in the early  universe demonstrate the presence of large quantities of iron, casting serious doubt on the gas model in recent years.

In addition, there is now growing evidence from the field of heliosiesmology that the sun possesses a  significant stratification layer at a very shallow depth from the top of the photosphere.  This new data suggest that the stratified iron surface is covered by a relatively thin veneer of plasma layers.

It is also noteworthy that an electrical rigid surface model of the sun has always been a valid alternative to the gas model.  Only when hydrogen fusion was discovered did other models begin to seem less "glamorous".  It is important to note however that quite a bit of research has already been conducted by Dr. Birkeland, Dr. Bruce, Dr. Manuel and many others that is now supported by modern satellite imagery and heliosiesmology observations.

Sound interesting so far?  Have some objections perhaps?  Please read on.  I will present a lot of evidence from the SOHO program in the form of raw DIT images and videos to support these ideas.  I will also provide videos and photos from the Yohkoh and Trace satellites as well as other 21 century satellites in space to support these ides.  Unlike the gas model of the sun, this model is based on direct, real life observations, not pure theory.    A solid surface model of the sun is a LOT more logical and a LOT better scientifically supported than current models of the sun.  More importantly, current gas models of the sun simply do NOT explain the video images we see through SOHO and TRACE.  This website is dedicated in humble appreciation of the incredible work done by the people at SOHO and Trace and Yohkoh.

You can click here to download a PDF manuscript that has been offered for general web peer review.  It is a condensed, and easy to read presentation of this material.

You may also wish to download a scientifically oriented presentation of the nuclear chemical evidence that supports this model and includes some images from this website.  Dr. Oliver Manuel from the University of Missouri at Rolla details the growing evidence from nuclear chemistry and satellite technologies that demonstrate that the sun acts to mass separate the various elements in the solar atmosphere.  Included in this paper are some key satellite images that support his life’s work by direct observation.  Recent findings of an unexpectedly large source of energy from repulsive interactions between neutrons in the 2,850 known nuclides has challenged the assumption that H-fusion is the main source of energy that powers the Sun and other stars.

Recent findings from the field of heliosiesmology demonstrate the existence of a double sided stratified layer, that is located just under the photosphere.  Just as we can see the transition layer of the surface in satellite imagery, heliosiesmology allows us to hear this same transition layer and even measure the thickness of the transitional layer.  In this case they find a double sided, stratified layer that is centered at around .99R and begins at about .995R, or just under the surface of the photosphere.  Heliosiesmology allows us to hear and verify what we can see in satellite images.