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May 6, 2024 · Explore the Sun with NASA's images, facts and activities. Learn how the Sun affects Earth and its neighbors, and how it changes over time.
1 day ago · The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies.
May 6, 2024 · The light of daytime comes from our closest star: the Sun. Even though our Sun is kind of an ordinary star, there are a few things that make our Sun quite special. Make Sun paper!
1 day ago · Below you will find numerous images of the Sun from these instruments in many different wavelengths, revealing many different solar phenomena like solar flares, coronal holes, sunspots and filaments. The numbers on the images below indicate the location of different sunspot groups.
May 8, 2024 · Safe ways to look at the Sun. First, don’t throw away your eclipse glasses! You can use them on any sunny day to get a safe view of the Sun. But to get a close-up view of our nearest star...
May 7, 2024 · See the sun's corona revealed in all its glory during 2024 total solar eclipse (photo) | Space. Eclipses. See the sun's corona revealed in all its glory during 2024 total solar eclipse...
5 days ago · Sun, star around which Earth and the other components of the solar system revolve. It is the dominant body of the system, constituting more than 99 percent of its entire mass. The Sun is the source of an enormous amount of energy , a portion of which provides Earth with the light and heat necessary to support life .
