Throughout our history, this majestic wonder has been a constant source of comfort, awe and worship but our understanding of the Sun has developed slowly. For centuries, the finest scientific minds sought to understand how it created a seemingly endless amount of heat and energy, s recently as the nneteenth century, science had little knowledge of what the sun was made of, where it had come from or the secret of its phenomenal power. It has existed for five billion years.
Every second. the Sun produces 400 million, million, million. million watts of power. That is a million times the power ...