Now the Sun will be burning hydrogen as the stars doing in the main sequence until the hydrogen is exhausted in the core, and at that point the stars start to die, the outer layer of the Sun will expand, the Sun will move away from the main sequence...
Energy isn't created or destroyed,it's transferred, so it's transferred from the center of the Sun through the atmospheres to us in many forms, warmth and light via the plants and via the food that we eat. I can really understand why ancient civiliza...
But the sun's violent burst can harm us, its active nature is what allows us to live at all, because the sun also eject the solar wind, and energized stream of particles that head out into space, and that we can see passing-off as it bounces off our...
What most of us have learnt is that the Sun's reliable, dependable, unchanging, but its serene outward appearance that we take for granted belies a truth about all middle age stars, beneath the surface, there is a battle raging, uncovered by the scie...
This whole process explains the distinctive shape of all solar systems including our own. The reason why you see all the planets going around the Sun in the same direction on the same plane is because they are all formed from the same belt, from the...
At this time people very much believed that God had created a template for the heavens and he'd used pretty much the same template to create the society as well, and so with this as above so below belief, any change in the heavens immediately had hug...
But when a star is born and starts its life story, scientists have discovered that something else very important can begin. The first person to get an inkling of the second story of creation was Nicolas C, the father of modern astronomy, an accidenta...
Many regions within these clouds can stay like that for ever for millions of years until something happens, a trigger and then a star forms.The trigger for such a monumental event doesn't have to be much, two clouds conbine as they pass, or a distant...
This cluster the Pleiades mentioned by Homer in the Odyssey, they appear in the Bible and in some of the goddess by the Aztecs and the Maya, but the interesting thing is that the Pleiades are so young, that early dinosaur never saw them, because at t...
Each night after the sunsets, sit back, look up and you can witness an epic drama playing above our heads. One involving a cast of billions, the stars. Every one with its own story to tell. There are old red giants, so puffed up. They are coming apar...
