The Sun

Gary's completed solar mosaic. Credit: Gary Palmer

Astrophoto guides

Image processing How to create a Solar mosaic

Gary’s final processed image shows rich detail on the dynamic surface of our star. Credit: Gary Palmer

Astrophoto guides

Image processing How to colourise astrophotos of the Sun

What will happen when our Sun dies? This is an image of our host star captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.

What will happen when our Sun dies?

Monitoring solar events at the Met Office Space Weather Operations Centre. Credit: The Met Office

Space weather and the Met Office: predicting solar phenomena

A solar prominence captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA

Apollo Moon rocks could reveal the history of our Sun

Credit: Giovanni Fidone‎

Astrophotography

Sunspots: AR2192 in pictures

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Parker Solar Probe’s journey to the Sun

A beautiful prominence eruption producing a coronal mass ejection (CME) shot off the east limb (left side) of the sun on April 16, 2012. Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO

The Story of the Solar System: The Sun

The perihelion of Mercury's orbit is shifting slightly, an effect MESSENGER was able to measure. Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre

Solar System’s orbits are expanding

Activity on the Sun's surface waxes and wanes over an 11-year cycle. Image Credit: ESA&NASA/SoHO/

Special star helps unravel Sun’s variability

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How to safely observe the Sun

A cross section of the Sun’s inner portions.
Credit: Newton Science Magazine

Sun’s core rotates faster than surface

A radio image of a triple star system forming in the Perseus molecular cloud. The image was captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. Credit: Bill Saxton, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), NRAO/AUI/NSF

Did our Sun once have a partner?

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Is the Sun responsible for Ceres’ atmosphere?

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Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere