“… a gigantic nuclear furnace!”
The Bad Astronomer presents the next installment of his “10 Things You Don’t Know About…” and this one is all about our parent star, the Sun. Okay, so you may know a fair number of them, but a few of them highlight common misconceptions that have made their way into our teaching about the Sun. Sure, I should know better, being Master of the Universe… I mean, having a masters in astronomy… but I forgot that calling the Sun an “average-sized star” may make sense when you look at an H-R diagram, but don’t make sense when you take a census of the stars in the galaxy. Read all about the Sun in his well presented article, and learn more about how the Sun can destroy us (mwah haha ha… oh…) in Death from the Skies!
In other news… Kepler is looking to launch this Friday! No, not Johannes Kepler, the Kepler Mission which aims to determine how many Earth-sized planets are in the galaxy. There’s been so much coverage of it around the space blogosphere, that I won’t even pretend to be able to keep up this week.
As for me, I have an early bedtime, so I can get up early and do some fieldwork tomorrow in Green Bank! Maybe I’ll get a fun, ice and mud filled post for you all after that…
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