Active regions on the Sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern’s face on Oct. 8, 2014.

What is the largest known star in the universe? (And the smallest?)

When it comes to the stars, our sun makes a lot of noise. Not only life on Earth literally revolve around it, it dwarfs the rest of the stars in the sky – from our perspective, at least. But if you zoom out to the far reaches of our galaxy, the sun doesn’t look like …

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