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What Causes the Sun’s Periodic Vertical Oscillation Through the Plane of the Galaxy?

Your description of the overall motion of the Sun through our galaxy is correct. The orbital motion of the…

The asteroid and Kuiper (or “Trans-Neptunian Region”) belts are composed of remnant material left over from the formation of…

Even though the stars that we see in the night sky are all very far away, we can see…

The rotation of the Sun is due to conservation of angular moment. What this means is that the gas…

At sunspot minimum, the apparent disk temperature of the Sun is about 70,000 Kelvin. At sunspot maximum the apparent…

I think that you are referring to the computer simulation results that were done a few years ago which…

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