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The solar interior

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The Century of Space Science

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The quest to learn the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun is motivated by several issues. For most people the most obvious is the desire to understand the source of energy for the Earth, which is essential for the maintenance of life. Astronomers are interested in the Sun because it is an example of a typical main-sequence star that can be studied in enormously greater detail than any other. And in addition, the Sun can be used to investigate fundamental physics: it is an important source of gravity, providing a testbed for the general theory of relativity, and it contains material at high pressure and temperature permitting us to study particle, nuclear and atomic physics, plasma physics, and fluid dynamics under conditions that cannot be achieved on Earth. Perhaps less fundamental but certainly more important to society, the solar interior is the source of both secular and cyclic variability in the electromagnetic and particle fluxes, and of all their effects on the Earth and human technological systems.

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