How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...
A total solar eclipse in April 2024 stunned millions across the United States.
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have uncovered new clues about how energy moves through the Sun’s outer atmosphere, ...
The next major eclipse expected to draw large global audiences will be a total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026.
Because the Moon appears slightly smaller in the sky at that moment, it does not block all of the Sun’s light. Instead, a ...