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Elements from the universe’s earliest stars gave birth to our sun

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Elements from the universe’s earliest stars gave birth to our sun

It is easy to regard the sun as humdrum, yet it contains elements blasted from the universe’s first stars as they died and is halfway through its 9-billion-year lifespan

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The sun

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The sun is too quiet, which may mean dangerous solar storms in future

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Weird magnetic threads in sun's corona seen for the first time

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Weird magnetic threads in sun's corona seen for the first time

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The best picture ever taken of the sun reveals its bizarre surface

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The best picture ever taken of the sun reveals its bizarre surface

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Solar Orbiter

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Solar Orbiter will give us our best views of the sun’s top and bottom

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Chasing the sun: How light and dark shape our bodies and minds

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Chasing the sun: How light and dark shape our bodies and minds

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Parker Solar Probe and sun

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NASA's closest ever flight to the sun answers solar wind mystery

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How to watch Mercury's transit of the sun with just binoculars

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Enormous ‘cannonballs’ of plasma spotted hurtling around the sun

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Enormous ‘cannonballs’ of plasma spotted hurtling around the sun

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Moon, Venus and Jupiter near Earth

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The planets might control the sun's activity - and it's not astrology

Our sun goes through a cycle of activity every 11 years, and it may be kept consistent by a periodic alignment of Venus, Earth, and Jupiter in their orbits

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Earth

The Northern Lights make a mysterious noise and now we might know why

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Health

Too much sunscreen? Why avoiding the sun could damage your health

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Life

Chasing the Sun review: Light's power over life charted

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Artificial sun made with movie magic could create clean hydrogen

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