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Sun

Aurora Borealis

Upcoming Solar Maximum Will Paint the Sky with Northern Lights

How the Sun makes the aurora and how to see them.
By Cassidy Ward 2 weeks ago
Vin Diesel in The Chronicles of Riddick

The Moon's shadow shapeshifts during rare hybrid solar eclipse

This is the Action Comics #1 of solar eclipses.
By Cassidy Ward 1 month ago
Space: 1999 (1975)

Climate engineers propose blocking the Sun by blasting Moon dust at it

It's like a 2% eclipse, all of the time.
By Cassidy Ward 3 months ago
Asteroid approaching Sun

Mile-wide asteroid found hiding in the Sun's glare

We didn't see you there.
By Cassidy Ward 7 months ago
An enormous solar filament, hundreds of thousands of kilometers across, erupted from the Sun in August 2012. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO

The future history of the Sun

New data shows when the Sun will start to die.
By Phil Plait 9 months ago
Artwork of a planet forming in a young star’s disk. Credit: NAOJ

What kickstarted the birth of our solar system?

Ancient meteorites give clues to what event caused the birth of our solar system.
By Phil Plait 9 months ago
R136a1 Gemini PHIL

Just how massive can stars get? Maybe not *quite* as massive as we thought

But still terrifyingly big.
By Phil Plait 9 months ago
The star UCAC4 237-008148

Over time, some stars get uncomfortably close to the Sun

Several stars in the recent past have given us a cosmically close shave.
By Phil Plait 9 months ago
Solar Spectrum

We're getting a clearer view of the interior of the Sun

A solar paradox has finally been resolved. Well, mostly.
By Phil Plait 11 months ago
Artwork depicting a frozen object like an asteroid or comet in deep space. Credit: Getty Images / Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library

A comet got really close to the Sun and completely freaked out

It literally blew chunks.
By Phil Plait 11 months ago
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