Our grasp of how stars rotate is "insufficient," with implications on our ability to understand the causes of phenomena on the sun like solar flares and coronal mass ejections that cause aurora and ...

In Forty Ways to Know a Star: Using Stars to Understand Astronomy, Jillian Scudder explores stars' greatest mysteries through 40 short essays accompanied by photos and illustrations. An astrophysicist ...

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Mumbai: Indian students, although curious and fascinated by astronomy, struggle to understand the basic concepts of the subject, revealed a nationwide survey of more than 2,000 secondary school ...