Who’s Ready to Think About Blocking Out the Sun?

The idea of artificially lowering the planet’s temperature is gaining supporters and hitting political opposition.

After Spectacular Auroras, What to Know about the Sun and Its Solar Cycle

The spectacle was particularly enthralling for Lisa Upton, who caught the skies over Boulder, Colo., glowing eerily red. Upton, a heliophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute, is an expert in ...
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Part of the Sun Just Broke Off and Scientists Are Completely Baffled by This Mysterious Phenomenon

A strange and unexpected phenomenon has been observed on the Sun: a section of its surface has broken off and is now ...
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What is the true color of the Sun? Hint: it's not yellow

The reason we often imagine the Sun as yellow or orange has to do with the air around us rather than with the Sun itself.
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As Solar Storm Hits Earth NASA Finds "The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up"

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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It actually rains on the Sun. Here’s the stunning reason

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly during solar flares, a mystery now solved by modeling time-varying ...
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As Solar Storm Hits Earth NASA Finds "The Sun Is Slowly Waking Up"

A new NASA study has found that the Sun's activity is ramping up, reversing the trend and surprising astronomers. Humans have known about sunspots since around 800 BCE, when ancient Chinese ...