We’re inching closer to a better sunscreen that won’t kill corals (unlike our current options)
Work on that summer bod, but be sure to protect it from the sun as well!
Tag: sun
How hot is the sun?
I have it on very good authority that it's more than 20 degrees, for sure.
Europe’s most powerful solar telescope lets us see its surface and spots up close
Up close and per-Sun-al.
Staring at the Sun: What is the lifecycle of a typical star
This is the story of our Sun; its past, present, and future.
Our Sun’s magnetic field might form a ‘deflated croissant’, says NASA
Science -- because you can't prove there's magnetic pastry in space any other way.
Spacecraft snaps the closest picture of the sun, finds weird ‘campfires’
These one-of-a-kind images of the sun are the closest ever acquired by cameras.
Jupiter will be very bright and visible tonight, as it comes closest to Earth
It's going to be a good month for stargazers.
New study shows sunlight can inactivate SARS-CoV-2
Could sunlight be an ally against COVID-19? This study suggests so.
Highest-ever resolution images of the sun revealed
It has an atmosphere much more complex than initially thought.
Astronomers capture the most detailed image of the sun
It looks like caramel corn. Yum!
When will the Sun run out of fuel?
The Sun has enough hydrogen fuel to last it another 5 billion years. However, life on Earth might become extinct ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Could Help Solve One of the Mysteries of Our Sun
The temperature around the sun is millions of times hotter than the sun's surface itself.
Researchers spot the first coronal mass ejection outside our solar system — it was massive
It was tens of thousands of times more massive than the ones our Sun puts out.
Solar plasma observations bring us one step closer to stable fusion generators
We're basically copying off of Nature.
Jupiter formed far from the sun and traveled closer during its early days
It also met a lot of asteroids it still hangs around with.
NASA spacecraft beams back first image from inside the Sun’s atmosphere
We have a spacecraft inside the sun's atmosphere -- take that in for a moment.
Scientists find the Sun’s twin roughly 184 light-years away from Earth
The 'twin' was forged in the same stellar nursery as the Sun. It also has the same age, metallicity, chemical ...
Parker solar probe comes closer to the sun than any other man-made spacecraft
And it's only getting warmed up.