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100 Billion Suns : The Birth, Life, and Death of the Stars

Beginner's Guide to the Sun

Global warming - is the Sun to blame?

Research suggests that the magnetic flux from the Sun more than doubled this century. As solar magnetism is closely linked with sunspot activity and the strength of sunlight reaching Earth, the increase could have produced warming in the global climate.

Leaky Sun threatens disruption

The high-speed particles are streaming out of a hole in the Sun's corona. Coronal holes are easy to spot by looking at the Sun through an x-ray telescope. They appear as very dark areas that contrast with bright spots overlying sunspot groups.

Pictures of Sun

Second Solar System Found

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory

Solar Flares

Solar Umbra

Sun as seen by NinePlanets

Ulysses Solar probe

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