The sun is more of a super microwave since the sun's core, according to NASA, can top 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. That's not fire - but something much hotter! Ray Petelin ...

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In the high atmosphere, he hoped, the balloon would burst and release sulfur dioxide particles — reflecting the sun’s rays and microscopically cooling the Earth.

Film critic Kenneth Turan reports on the latest release from the Vietnamese director who made it big with "Scent of Green Papaya." Turan says "The Last Vertical Ray of the Sun" is a worthy follow-up.

The sun is at its highest angle in the summer—which means that’s when the strongest UV rays are hitting our skin. But by late spring, UV rays can be summer strength in many areas of the country.

"We've compared this solar minimum to the last, and then we've used data from other spacecraft to go back to the 1960s, when the first real cosmic-ray measurements at solar minimum began," says ...