The Sun won’t explode in a dramatic fireball, but its ending will still be pretty wild. In about 5 billion years, it will run out of hydrogen, which is the fuel that keeps it shining. When that ...

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The sun is giving off solar eruptions so massive, it looks like a huge volcano. Amateur astronomer Peter Lawrence snapped this amazing close-up of the flares shooting into space from the sun’s eastern ...

Since the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been has been shooting continuous photos of the sun, once every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The results are gorgeous.