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The Story of the Sun

A huge painting of a white sun rising over a bay between rocks, with rays of many colours spreading across the whole canvas.
The Sun, painted by Edvard Munch in 1911 for a hall of the University of Oslo.

Image: Edvard Munch, The Sun (1911), Aula of the University of Oslo · Public domain

A Knaph story

The Story of the Sun

How people learned what the Sun is, how far and how big it is, and why it shines

c. 450 BCE – today

A red-hot stone, a half Moon, a black dot crossing the Sun, dark lines in a rainbow and the smallest things of all: how people slowly learned what the Sun really is.

A Knaph story

The Story of the Sun

How people learned what the Sun is, how far and how big it is, and why it shines

c. 450 BCE – today

A red-hot stone, a half Moon, a black dot crossing the Sun, dark lines in a rainbow and the smallest things of all: how people slowly learned what the Sun really is.

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