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"The sun is just a star" The sun is the largest object in the Solar System and is a continuous and ongoing nuclear explosion. 
Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night". Astrod Astronomy Freeware Analemma - Analemma - Analemma shows the position of the sun in the sky. Analemma displays the solar visiblity throughout a full year. The analemma website (and free software) explains and demonstrates the Analemma effect. Astrod Astronomy Freeware Suncycle - Suncycle - Suncycle is a calendar showing the sunrise and sunset time for a latitude/longitude and timezone. You can also configurate in the aboutscreen the winter and summer time offset. On the sunrise/set a mediafile can be activated (image and sound). Suncycle can create the suncycle graph. Astrod Astronomy Freeware Distant Suns - Distant Suns - Distant Suns: 16 million stars for free. Distant Suns ofers a galactic overview of outer space. (There is a free version of this commercial software here). Distant Suns Features: High speed Open-GL based solar-system "flight simulator". Live earth cloud data, updated every 6 hours. Realistic landscapes: Lick Observatory, Greek Ruins, and others. Color preferences. Advanced joystick control. Many other smaller enhancements and fixes. Includes the award winning screensaver: Grand Tour 3D:Pro. Astrod Astronomy Freeware SunCycle - SunCycle - SunCycle is a calendar showing the sunrise and sunset time for a latitude/longitude and timezone. You can also configurate, with SunCycle the winter and summer time offset. Suncycle allows you to see the evolution of the sunrise and sunset for the current year in the calendar in graph form. Astrod Astronomy Freeware A photograph of the sun showing sunspots, which are areas of cooler burning gas on the surface of the sun. (Photograph courtesy of NASA). "The sun is just a star" 
The sun showing sunspots. The sun is a star at the centre of our solar system. Astrod Astronomy Freeware Did you know? Some facts about the sun: The sun's diameter is 1,390,000 km The sun's temperature at the surface is 5800 K and at the core of the sun 15,600,000 K The surface of the Sun is called the photosphere The sun is the largest object in the Solar System The Ancient Greeks called the sun Helios, and the Ancient Romans called the sun Sol Astrod Astronomy Freeware A map showing the paths of the total solar eclipses visible from the earth from now until 2025. The map is courtesy of NASA. See below the image for the full size version of the map at NASA. (Photograph courtesy of NASA). "The sun is just a star" 
The full Size Map of Solar Total Eclipse paths 2001 to 2025 from NASA is here. Astrod Astronomy Freeware Astronomy software from Astrod |