The Sun Whenever I read articles about solar storms, they talk about billions of tons of charged particles that are ejected. How are these amounts calculated?
Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System If one were to stand on the Moon when Earth is eclipsing the Sun and look up, what would one see?
Science, Solar System How do astronomers determine the Sun’s sibling stars and where the Sun originated?
Cosmology, Exotic Objects In the first gravitational wave detection, black holes with masses of 29 and 36 Suns created a 62-solar-mass black hole. Three Solar masses were lost; how do black holes lose mass?