What NASA Found Inside The Sun

Key Takeaways

• 1You may have heard that light from our Sun takes 8 minutes to reach Earth, but the light you see every morning is actually older than the Great Pyr...
• 2Thanks to NASA's most advanced spacecraft, we're finally beginning to understand how the Sun actually works.
• 3The Sun's story begins with a cloud - an unfathomably large collection of gas stretching across hundreds of light years.
• 4Over millions of years, this debris clumped together, developing stronger gravity and attracting more material until it became a colossal star-form...
• 5During the embryonic stage, our future Sun was just a dense, dark ball of gas called a protostellar core - bigger than our entire solar system.