This section of the website links you to great resources to find out about our daystar's vital statistics, its age, size, origin and fate, and how it compares with the billions and billions of other stars in the Universe.

Click on the images for links to further information.

Every day, every sunrise, we have a chance to appreciate the star which makes all life on Earth possible.

BUT NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN! DO NOT USE BINOCULARS OR A TELESCOPE TO VIEW THE SUN WITHOUT SPECIAL EQUIPMENT AND ADULT SUPERVISION!

Most of us think of the Sun as a bright and featurless disk. Spacecraft and telescopes use special filters to study our star, revealing new phenomena.

First some context. Our Sun is one of 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. And there are over 200 billion galaxies in the known Universe.

Our home galaxy must look rather like Andromeda, a neighboring spiral galaxy.

Other stars, even giant ones like Betelgeuse even when imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, are just points of light or featureless.

But this shows the kind of detail the current generation of spacecraft, like TRACE, can see on our Sun.