There are eight known planets in the Solar System (ever since Pluto was booted from the club), but for a...
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A white dwarf isn’t your typical kind of star. While main sequence stars such as our Sun fuse nuclear material...
Like all stars, our Sun is powered by the fusion of hydrogen into heavier elements. Nuclear fusion is not only...
Our Sun is about 4.6 billion years old. We know that from models of Sun-like stars, as well as through...
General relativity is a profoundly complex mathematical theory, but its description of black holes is amazingly simple. A stable black...
The surface of the Sun is a turbulent dance of gravity, plasma, and magnetic fields. Much like the weather on...