With the sun starting to show its face again, the Facebook post shares some fun facts about the sun in case you may have forgotten in this wintry mix.
23 months ago

April 8 th 2024 the Moon will totally eclipse the sun and cast a complete umbra (shadow) progressing southwest to northeast across the US.
11 months ago

Scientists have been struggling to explain why temperatures in the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, reach mind-boggling temperatures of over 1.8 million...
17 months ago

The Parker Solar Probes is going closer to the sun than NASA has ever been.
60 months ago

North America plunked on top for a sense of scale. John Brady created this one as part of an in-depth series exploring the scale of the solar system.
122 months ago

The Sun appears to be far less active than similar stars in terms of brightness variations caused by sunspots and other phenomena – a “boring” personality.
56 months ago

All stars die, and eventually — in about 5 billion years — our sun will, too. Once its supply of hydrogen is exhausted, the final,...
80 months ago

categories:Science, Solar System | tags:Astronomy for Kids, The Sun.
202 months ago

Astronomers have identified what could be the most massive neutron star to date. It's a pulsar, named J0740+6620, and discrepancies in the...
64 months ago

You can't help but see the sun, given its size (864,000 miles in diameter, or big enough to hold 1.3 million Earths) and luminosity.
90 months ago