The Sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, going from the solar maximum, where it is covered in many sunspots and is ...

Venus and Jupiter, bracketing the sun, will be very noticeable, while Mercury will be rather ... There won't be any bright stars near the sun during this eclipse, but, amazingly, dim stars near it ...

Objects under the influence of a gravitational field will move toward the field's center of gravity. Sometimes, as with the ...

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects - planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets - in orbit around it. The Sun and ...

Large bodies such as the Sun, the Moon and the Earth all have very large masses. Due to the large mass each body has a gravitational field that attracts smaller masses to it. Mass (\(m\)) is a ...