For a brief moment, the Sun resembled a giant, orange-hued 'googly eye' during a recent Martian solar eclipse. On Sept. 30, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover captured Phobos, one of the Red Planet's ...

Behold the Sun's convulsing surface at a level of detail ... This is remarkable when set against the scale of our star, which has a diameter of about 1.4 million km (870,000 miles) and is 149 ...

The table below compares the actual Earth, sun and moon distances and diameters. Enter the values you used in your experiment. You may use a marble diameter of about 5/8 inch (about 18 mm) to ...