I love going out to the beach to watch the sunset.
I love sunsets too! I just love to see the sun sink below the horizon.
Yeah it's so fun to watch it disappear.
Yea, Fun fact the Sun actually sets exactly due west at the equator on the spring and fall equinoxes, which occurs only once a year.
Oh wow, it would be interesting to track the location of the sunset through the year
I know that in astronomy you can track the sunset when the trailing edge of the Sun's disk disappears below the horizon.
I see, that's really amazing!
Yea suprisingly people think its the sun that moves but the Sunset just a result a result of Earth's rotation.
Yeah, I'd love to see how the sunset changes at different locations around the world
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, with internal convective motion that generates a magnetic field via a dynamo process. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth. Its diameter is about 1.39 million kilometers (864,000 miles), or 109 times that of Earth, and its mass is about 330,000 times that of Earth. It accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System.
Sunset
Sunset, also known as sundown, is the daily disappearance of the Sun below the horizon due to Earth's rotation. As viewed from the Equator, the equinox Sun sets exactly due west in both spring and fall. As viewed from the middle latitudes, the local summer Sun sets to the northwest for the Northern Hemisphere, but to the southwest for the Southern Hemisphere.
The time of sunset is defined in astronomy as the moment when the upper limb of the Sun disappears below the horizon. Near the horizon