[http://youtu.be/HFT7ATLQQx8] (YouTube link)This s...  ...t it -you know what they say about looking at the sun . Dr. Phil Plait tells us what's going on here.Wha...  ...ofound impact of magnetism on the material in the Sun . I’ve described this effect before (with lo...  ...ils here), but in a nutshell:...

…the beauty of a sunset , in all of its varieties and variations, is only...  ...ions, is only enhanced the more you know about it. Sunsets grab our eyes and our interest. They change color...  ...ven see a flash of green or blue, if we're lucky. Sunsets even come with th...

Phil Plait at Slate has compiled a best-of list of...  ...pretty spectacular. Included is this image of the sun , which depicts an event that occurred on August 3...  ...ust 31, 2012. An arch of matter was raised by the sun 's magnetic field and then erupted, sending hundre...

If you think Tatooine is pretty sunny with its two suns , this newly discovered planet is doubly...  ...ies are illuminated by four different suns - the first known of its type. The distant world...

For all of you who've held up th...  ...photo and weep: NASA spacewalker Sunita Williams looks as if she's reaching out to...  ...as if she's reaching out to touch the sun in this picture, which is one of the coolest view...  ...m the International Space Station. Of course,...

We have seen a couple of solar flares this year th...  ...te opposite, meaning a lower than usual number of sunspots , can cause dangerously cold weather, as it did in...

Did you see the transit of Venus this week? Even if you did, you didn't see it like the joint US-Japanese Hinode space mission did! But we can see the amazing picture it took. Link...

The Interweb is abuzz over the 2012 transi...  ...ansit of Venus across the face of the sun . This event happens in pairs eight years apart th...

The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA sat...  ...is a NASA satellite that constantly observes the sun . Twice a year, the satellite's view is obscured b...  ...n: when the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun , it’s a solar eclipse, and when the Earth passe...  ...ar eclipse, and when the Earth p...

(YouTube link) A solar flare erupted on Tuesday (March 6) that sent a storm of particles toward Earth. As they arrive today, the storm may affect satellite transmissions and power grids. They may also produce extreme...