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The Sun

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

CORONA
The sun's outermost atmosphere, the corona, reaches temperatures of over 1 million degrees Celsius, far hotter than the visible surface below it, a mystery that scientists are still working to fully explain.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HELIUM
Helium was actually discovered in the sun before it was found on Earth, detected as an unknown spectral line in sunlight during the solar eclipse of 1868, decades before it was isolated in a laboratory.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
EQUINOX
Twice a year, at the spring and fall equinox, the sun rises almost perfectly due east and sets almost perfectly due west, and day and night run nearly equal lengths across the whole Earth.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ZENITH
Solar noon, the moment the sun reaches its zenith, its highest point in the sky, is the instant your shadow is shortest, and the sun's rays strike the ground most directly.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Sun word search

The Sun: a free online word search

The Sun word search is playable online right now, no account needed, with solar flares, corona, and that particular gold the sky goes just after dawn.

About The Sun

Our sun is a star made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium, fusing hydrogen into helium at its core and releasing an almost unimaginable flood of energy in the process. That energy travels 93 million miles to reach us, arriving as the warm blush of sunrise, the hard noon glare, and the molten colors pooling at the horizon just before dark. Every shadow, every season, every living thing on Earth is shaped by this single blazing point of light at the center of our solar system.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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