Nearest Star

The Surprising Science of Our Sun

Leon Golub

Jay M. Pasachoff

    Preface

    1. Introduction

    2. The Once and Future Son

    3. What We See

    4. What We Don't See

    5. Eclipses

    6. Space Missions

    7. Between Fire and Ice

    8. Space Weather

    Bibliography

    Glossary

    Acknowledgments

    Illustration Credits

    Index

  • Cover: Nearest Star
  • A photo of the author

Leon Golub is an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and is the head of one of the teams working with NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft.

Jay M. Pasachoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College and, having viewed 31 solar eclipses, is Chair of the Working Group on Eclipses of the International Astronomical Union.