Look up solar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Solar may refer to: Of or relating to the Sun Solar telescope, a special purpose telescope used to observe...
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The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the objects that orbit it. It was formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a dense...
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SOLAR may refer to: SOLAR (ISS), a science observatory on the International Space Station SOLAR Records, a defunct American record label Solar (disambiguation)...
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The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion...
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A solar panel is a device that converts sunlight into electricity by using photovoltaic (PV) cells. PV cells are made of materials that produce excited...
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Solar power, also known as solar electricity, is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly...
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The solar mass (M☉) is a standard unit of mass in astronomy, equal to approximately 2×1030 kg. It is approximately equal to the mass of the Sun. It is...
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A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially...
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either passive solar or active solar depending on how they capture and distribute solar energy or convert it into solar power. Active solar techniques include...
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A solar cell or photovoltaic cell (PV cell) is an electronic device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by means of the photovoltaic...
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