Jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system at about 88,800 miles across. That’s big enough to create the amount of gravity needed to clean up many unstable objects that could threaten the Earth.
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What Is God Like
We read about God, and are familiar with verses that tell us how He made the world. Does this mean He has time to notice the things we do?
End of the Trail, June 2025: Sunspots
The largest sunspot region of early 2025!
Atmospheric Optics
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive www.atoptics.co.uk Not everything that looks like a rainbow is called a rainbow. Colorful arcs close to the Sun are in the not-a-rainbow category. You can...
Fun Facts About Gravity
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Gravity seems fairly straightforward and predictable. If you throw a ball up and then catch it, the speed at which it falls back into your hand will be...
All the Way to Texas
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Diamond ring. Photo © Andrew Stine. “Shall we go to Texas to see the eclipse?” I asked the family. “It’s four minutes and twenty seconds of totality...
Our April Eclipse
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive For months we had been planning travel routes, buying equipment, and researching photography methods for the eclipse. Now it looked like we would be...
Solar Photography
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive The aurora superstorm in May has captured my attention—not just the beauty of the aurora, but the beauty of the sun from which the storm originated. There...
Let’s Take a Hike, July 2024: AR3664
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Robert Schumann captured this photo of the sun May 13, 2024, showing the famous active region 3664. This region hurled at least six coronal mass ejections...
Eclipse Day
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive The long-anticipated day had arrived! I woke up fifteen minutes before my alarm sounded. Today is the big day!After much planning and preparation,...
Mailbox, June 2024
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“Joy Cometh in the Morning”
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Diamond ring. Photo © Andrew Zimmerman. So amazing! How could such a tiny sliver left of the sun still yield so much light?! The temperature had been...
To Photograph An Eclipse
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Solar eclipse. Photo © Choosakdi Kabyubon|Dreamstime.com. I visualize several groups of solar eclipse observers. One group makes no effort to photograph...
Mailbox, December 2023
From the Editor’s Quill, November 2023
As I write this, no doubt some of you are looking forward to next Saturday when the October 14, 2023, annular solar eclipse takes place. Right now, the prediction is for us to have clouds that day....