1. Why didn't Johann Bayer give a name to the Sun like 'Alpha-Prime' or something?
2. Where did the legend about Ra the Sun god start?
3. How old is the Sun?
4. How can I convince children in 3rd grade that the Sun is the center of the solar system?
5. Does the solar wind affect spacecraft the way it does the tails of comets?
6. If the solar wind can't rearrange the dust on the Moon, why does it blast dust from comets?
7. What is the rate of mass loss by the Sun from the solar wind?
8. How bright would the Sun be from the distance of Sirius?
9. Have astronomers determined exactly how the Sun will change in the next 10 billion years?
10. Does water exist on the Sun?
11. Why doesn't the Sun run out of energy?
12. How much energy does the Sun produce in one hour?
13. Why is the solar corona visible only during a solar eclipse, and not with a sun filter?
14. How large is the Sun's core?
15. How thick is the solar corona?
16. Is the loss of mass by the Sun sufficient to change the orbits of the planets?
17. Will the Sun soon be passing through a dust cloud?
18. Is the Sun shrinking in size?
19. Does the Sun give off smoke?
20. When is the Sun predicted to go nova?
21. Is the Sun rotating, or does it always show the same side towards the Earth?
22. Why is the Sun yellow?
23. Why doesn't the Sun blow up?
24. Is our Sun considered to be a young or old star?
25. Does the Sun have a south pole?
26. How large is the Sun compared to the earth?
27. If the Sun is made of hydrogen and helium, why can't we see through it?
28. Does the Sun rotate?
29. Is there a safe, inexpensive way to view Sunspots?
30. Is there a correlation between sunspot activity and the weather?
31. What is a solar flare, and are they harmful to humans?
32. Can you say anything about the largest sunspots seen in 1840?
33. Is the Sun a variable star?
34. Where can I get the yearly sun spot numbers from 1700 to the present?
35. Why are sun spot numbers correlated with average lake level?
36. Could a massive solar flare light up the Moon and Jupiter, but still not destroy the Earth?
37. What is the speed of the Sun and the size of it's orbit?
38. Why don't Venus and Mercury transit the Sun every year?
39. On what dates does the Sun pass through the constellations along the Ecliptic?
40. At what latitude do you see the earliest sunset in December and the latest in January?
41. If the Sun rises and sets every day, why do people say it is in a particular constellation?
42. What is the distance to the Sun from the Earth in miles?
43. Does the Sun set in the same place every day?
44. What causes the green flash seen in the setting Sun?
45. Could you send a space probe directly INTO the Sun, and what would it tell you that us useful?
46. Is there any absolute proof that the Sun is not a member of a binary star system?
47. Can we ever alter the spectrum of the sun?
48. Is the sun shrinking 200 miles/year?
49. Will my computer crash because of a solar storm?
50. How can I find out of there is a solar storm going on right now?
51. How does the solar wind affect the Earth?
52. How does the solar wind change with time?
53. How much has the size of the Sun changed in the last few billion years?
54. What effect do solar flares have on computer chips?
55. What does the sun look like from the surface of Mars?
56. What are the major components of the solar wind?
57. Is the solar wind a problem for astronauts?
58. If the sun had a white dwarf, what would it be like in our solar system?
59. What is the farthest likely distance to a companion star to the Sun?
60. What did people know about the Sun in the 1820s?
61. How fast and far does the solar wind blow?
62. What is the composition of the Sun?
63. What are solar storms and how do they affect the Earth?
64. How long will it be before the Sun's expansion makes life on Earth impossible?
65. What is the Sun's lifetime going to be?
66. How much gravitational force does the Sun produce?
67. How does the solar wind work?

1. How does the solar wind work?
2. How do astronomers measure the temperature of the Sun without going there?
3. Why doesn't the Sun just collapse into a white dwarf?
4. What will become of the Sun after the red giant phase?
5. Why can't you measure the distance to the Sun using parallax?
6. How much mass does the Sun convert to energy each hour?
7. When the Sun becomes a black dwarf, what state of matter will it be in?
8. If the Sun causes the solar wind, why is its speed faster by Uranus than near the Sun itself?
9. Why is the Sun hotter on the outside than the inside?
10. Why is the Sun's chromosphere and corona hotter than the inner layers?
11. Why are sunspots dark?
12. Why do sunspots vary in an 11 year cycle?
13. Do the planets affect the sunspot cycle?
14. Is there a simple way to determine the exact time of the Vernal Equinox?
15. Can you explain why the latest sunrise and sunsets don't happen at the Winter Solstice, but happen on December 7 and January 4?
16. What is the equation of time?
17. How do we know what the inside of the sun is like?
18. If the solar corona is so hot, why can't we see it?
19. What causes the solar wind?
20. How can astronomers study what happens inside the Sun?
21. How was the Sun formed?
22. Our Sun is a yellow star, so why do we speak of white-light spectra when we look at its spectrum with a prism?

1. How is the solar magnetic field generated?
2. Why are sunspots dark?
3. How long does it take light to get out from the inside of the Sun?

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