The Strangest Star: A Scientific Account of the Life and Death of the Sun

Our Sun is unique among the stars, because it is the only one amidst whose family of planets we know life to have evolved. This apart, we tend to think of the Sun as simply one star among many very normal, very ordinary, a stable factor in our lives.

But exciting new discoveries in astronomy reveal that for some time now the Sun has been acting in a very unusual way; that it is shaking like a jelly; that it may be shrinking; that its power may even have been partially cut off at source. Worse still, it was precisely under these abnormal conditions that mankind made his appearance on Earth.