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Book review celebrating the International Year of Light

Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of our Sun (2nd Edition), by Leon Golub and Jay M. Pasachoff

Scope: general interest. Level: general readership.

 

Notes

1. The Sun, of course, does not come out. The Solar System is heliocentric; the Sun stays put. It is the Earth’s rotation on its axis while orbiting the Sun that gives that notion.

2. See http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/SEcatalog.html for the five millennia catalogue of solar eclipse.

3. The surface temperature of the Sun is about 6000 K.

4. After the English astronomer, Edward Maunder, who first noticed it in the late nineteenth century.

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