The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have ...
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 ...
The Nuclear Furnace at the Sun's Heart The temperature in the Sun's core is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million ...
The sun is much more than a bright light in the sky. It's a giant ball of burning gas that holds our cosmic neighborhood together and without it, there would be no life on Earth. We are also ...
Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted ...
Astronomers have detected the radio burst from a massive eruption known as a coronal mass ejection (CME) on an M-type star ...
New multi-temperature coronal mass ejection observations might help us better understand how life emerged and evolved on Earth ...
The powerful coronal mass ejection would have likely destroyed the atmospheres of any potentially habitable planets nearby ...