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Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...

A star like the Sun is at equilibrium - gravity tends to pull it inwards, and radiation pressure from the nuclear reactions tends to expand it outwards. In other words, the gravitational collapse ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution views of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views of our well-studied star.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has snapped detailed photographs of the Sun that have been stitched together to ...

It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...

Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

Some scientists define seasons differently from the "regular" cycle of equinoxes and solstices. Here's how meteorological ...