How can I learn more about our Sun?

Studying Sunbeams is indeed an exciting career for astronomers and solar physicists. If you would like to learn more about how scientists are studying our nearest star, the Sun, please be sure to visit the homepage for the Yohkoh Public Outreach Project (YPOP) at:

http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/

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Here's some other links that you might like. They're all related to the Sun. (These will take you out of the Surfing for Sunbeams Tour, so you'll have to use your "back" button to return to this page.)

• Here's a glossary of solar terms.
• The homepage for the Yohkoh Public Outreach Project
• Technical Info about the Structure of the Sun. (Different layers and stuff.)
• A comparison of the Sun to other stars, called "The Sun as a Star."
• This page has some more info about the Yohkoh spacecraft.
• Some cool solar movies.
• A very technical description of The Solar Cycle.
• A graph of how the Sun's X-Ray output changes during the Solar Cycle.
• Here's a tour of the whole solar system, called the Nine Planets; there's a good summary of information about the Sun
• Visit the Edinboro University Observatory, where students can take images of the Sun through a 16 inch telescope.

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Image Credit: Yohkoh Science Team