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Living With a Star - Aug 19, 2008
Total Solar Eclipse on August 1, 2008
What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing) - July 11, 2008
NASA Plans to Visit the Sun - June 10, 2008
For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA has decided to go there.

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Global climate change -- is it real? How much, if any, is being caused by the Sun? Who will be most affected by future problems caused by rising seas, growing deserts, and more frequent droughts? Visit our Global Warming section, which is frequently updated with new research links.

 
Test Your Knowledge!
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What do you know about the sun? Earth's fascinating star, our Sun, can teach us about many things, for example, about the formation of our Solar System, basic physics processes, or our space environment. Try some of our quizzes to learn more about the Sun:

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Earth from space and sunWould your high school like to monitor solar storms? High above us lies a desolate place where continual blasts of particles and energy from the Sun pound the top of Earth's atmosphere. This "ionized" region, where electrons and nuclei dart around freely, is a plasma we call the ionosphere. The ionosphere reacts strongly to the intense x-ray and ultraviolet radiation released by the Sun during a solar flare or solar storm. We can track these solar disturbances by monitoring changes to the Earth's ionosphere. The Solar Center has a project to place ionospheric monitors in high schools and community colleges around the world.

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News and images of the August 1 2008 eclipse, general information about eclipses, and links to classroom activities
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Watch the streaming video of The Colors of the Sun, produced by the Stanford Solar Center and Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab.
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