Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...
With nuclear fusion in the news, we look to the sun. An old hand at the process, it squeezed its first hydrogen atoms together 4.6 billion years ago. On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar ...
Astronomers have found that the sun is more metallic than we previously thought, potentially solving an astronomical mystery that scientists have grappled with for years. The sun is Earth's closest ...