Getting too close to the sun is definitely not a good idea. Its immense heat and radiation can be very dangerous, which is why it is good that we are a distance away from it that we are.

You don't have to venture too far afield to find the sun. There is a wide choice of destinations only three or four hours away. Malta, with its history dating back 7,000 years, makes a perfect choice.

During this circuit, our planet is an average of 93 million miles away from the sun, a distance that takes light about eight minutes to traverse. Astronomers define this distance as one ...