In the pantheon of cosmic celebrities, the sun is one true superstar. It’s not only the Earth’s prime source of light and heat — it also fuels the greenery that makes breathing possible, keeps time by setting the body’s daily rhythms and spits out charged particles that create the beauty of the aurora borealis.
But for all its roles on life’s stage, the sun remains something of an inscrutable star. You might say it’s the Tiger Woods of the cosmos.
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