New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future. By Katrina Miller Our sun is a violent place. Bursts of radiation ...
In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...
After all, the chosen stars should be particularly close "relatives ... passing asteroids or comets, as well as non-sun-like ...
It remains unknown, however, if the sun has all the requisite properties of these distant sun-like stars that would stoke ...
All red giants eventually resolve their moment ... weight until their centers act in some ways like a solid. A star like the Sun will collapse at the end to be about twice the size of Earth ...
Studying the astrospheres of other sunlike stars can tell us what the sun was like in its youth ... your support makes all the difference. Make a donation today to help us continue bringing ...
Astronomers modeled sunspot activity on a nearby red giant star to learn about its chaotic ... in starspots on XX Trianguli do not follow sun-like magnetic cycles, which the authors say is likely ...
during which it is an ordinary star like the sun that burns hydrogen to forge helium in its core. However, it seems that the stars accompanying BH1 and BH2 may still be in the main sequence phase ...