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A comet wagged its tail as it flew past the sun

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A comet wagged its tail as it flew past the sun

The tail of comet Erasmus swung back and forth during its closest approach to the sun, probably because of a cloud of plasma spat out during a solar storm

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The sun with solar flares coming off it

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The sun is smaller than we thought it was

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Annular solar eclipse

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How to spot October’s ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse across the Americas

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This image of the solar corona is a color overlay of the emission from highly ionized iron lines, with white light images added below. Different colors provide unique information about the temperature and composition of solar material in the corona. Credits: S. Habbal/M. Druckm?ller/Nasa https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/fe_xi_fe_xiv_wl-hr_mitchell_achf.png

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Why the next solar eclipses are a unique chance to understand the sun

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India set to launch probe to investigate mysteries of the sun

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A close-up of the sun showing solar wind emerging

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Solar wind that blasts from sun may be driven by tiny plasma flares

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All of Neptune’s clouds have vanished – it may be because of the sun

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Some sunlight is more energetic than it should be

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Astronomers have spotted inexplicably bright light coming from the sun

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The slippery quest to invent a safer, more effective sunscreen

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The slippery quest to invent a safer, more effective sunscreen

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Could we put out the sun with a sun-sized orb of water?

What would happen if we pushed a sun-sized ball of water into our star? The Dead Planets Society podcast dives into the possibilities

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Solar flares made in the lab could teach us about the real thing

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Dazzlingly detailed photo of a record solar tornado '14 Earths tall'

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Northern lights: The best pictures of the aurora taken across the UK

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Sunquakes may be caused by weird beams of electrons from solar flares

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