The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.
Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.
How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...
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Two blazing stars once raced past the Sun and reshaped our solar system
Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...
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Voyager hits a 50,000K wall at the solar system’s edge that shouldn’t exist
At the ragged frontier where the Sun’s influence gives way to the galaxy, a decades‑old spacecraft has stumbled into a furnace that theory did not predict. As Voyager pushes through the heliopause, ...
At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based ...
Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...
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Comet 24P/Schaumasse makes its closest approach to the sun today: But will you be able to see it?
24P/Schaumasse will make its closest pass of the sun on Jan. 8, according to In-the-sky, when it will pass 109.7 million ...
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