Solar Minimum versus Solar Maximum | NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory FriendsofNASA.org: Our Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star—a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium—at the center of our solar system. It is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth and our solar system’s only star. The height of the Sun’s activity cycle, known as solar maximum, is a time of greatly increased solar storm activity. Sunspots, eruptions called solar flares, and coronal mass ejectio

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Solar Analemma A solar analemma is the figure-eight-shaped path the Sun traces in the sky if observed from a fixed location at the same time each day throughout the year. It visually represents the combination of two effects: #solar #sun #space | Secrets of Space