Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. After spending the last six months in the evening sky for ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

For many centuries, the Sun has been one of the most recognisable but least understood phenomena in our sky. While it has ...