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On November 3rd, I attended the “Getting serious about the sun” event at the Daily Planet cafe in in the north carolina museum of Natural sciences. The guest speaker’s name was Dr.Treuthardt, who is the Assistant Head, Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Lab  at the North Carolina Museum of Natural sciences. His work deals with understanding the evolution of nearby galaxies by studying their different forms and structures. Dr. Treuthardt gave a presentation first, followed by question and answer time. At the end, we decorated a cookie with Twizzlers and cinnamon to represent the sunspots, solar flares and the convection currents on the sun.

The sun is related to environmental science because it is of paramount importance to humans and all other organisms on earth. The sun provides light and heat to organisms on earth. Plants absorb light energy using chlorophyll in their leaves. They use it to convert carbon dioxide and water to make a sugar called glucose. The sun also cause the unevening heating of the air, and many other factors that create the weather. (Making the edible "sun")