The Star You Never See at Night

On a clear night in the high desert of New Mexico, you can see roughly five thousand stars. But there is one star you never see at night — the one that matters most. Our sun, burning at twenty-seven million degrees at its core, does something remarkable: it holds everything in place. Remove the sun, and within eight minutes — the time it takes light to travel ninety-three million miles — Earth would begin drifting into the void at sixty-seven thousand miles per hour.…