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The Sun's magnetic field controls many phenomena, such as this solar flare seen by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

April 3, 2019 Science

The Sun’s magnetic field might be 10 times stronger than we thought

A new study by Queen’s University Belfast and Aberystwyth University indicates that the Sun’s magnetic field is 10 times more

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The Sun's corona - its outermost layer of atmosphere.

February 7, 2019 Science

Researchers find evidence for a new fundamental constant of the Sun

New research undertaken at Northumbria University, Newcastle shows that the sun’s magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed. Their findings

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Our Sun was born in a group of thousands of other stars, and now astronomers have identified the closest relative ever found

November 21, 2018 Science

The Sun’s “identical twin” may have been discovered

Our Sun may live a pretty lonesome life nowadays, but when it was born some 4.6 billion years ago, it

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Our solar system might have once ejected a giant planet that now wanders among the stars, much like the lonely world illustrated here.

October 5, 2018 Science

Orbital Forensics Hint at Sun’s Long-Lost Planet

Our solar system is like a 4.6-billion-year-old crime scene. Crater-ridden surfaces, misaligned planetary orbits and streams of interplanetary debris are

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